1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 When can you break the rules? 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,600 This is MGM when you're listening a story over everything the chronicles of an author artist analyzer the date is 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,680 October 14 2022 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:18,520 I forgot to make a teaser except for I guess the title that I just said when can you break the rules is the teaser or 5 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,380 The prompt for my little fabula ex machina 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,920 Thing that I'm gonna do at the end here towards the end here, but first let's track my progress 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:32,360 What is the current status of my current sorry? What is the status of my current projects progress made length of time on the backburner? 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,820 All right, so active first. I have the grow book series, which is five books that I have planned out 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,040 manuscript is completed for books one and two draft 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,640 Drafts are completed. Well, I 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,960 Don't have drafts completed for books three through five 12 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,680 So I need to do that book three is outlined sort of but I have to expound on it later and 13 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,320 I need to outline books four and five 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,660 Altogether because they the outlines on those have not started at all 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,040 So I was supposed to have 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,080 Done text descriptions and thumbnails. That was my assignment from last week 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,800 but I 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,400 Was unable to do that 19 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:07,760 however 20 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,840 I did finish all my text descriptions which it was actually a lot of fun to do and it took me about two sessions maybe 21 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,480 An hour or so and I'm wondering how long the others will take to complete 22 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,580 But first of course before I move on to doing the text descriptions for the others, I have to do all the thumbnail sketches 23 00:01:23,580 --> 00:01:27,600 So my next action for this coming week by the 21st 24 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,240 I guess of October would be to make sketches for all of grow bug book one 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,320 Which hopefully I'm gonna do real sloppy like, you know stick figure type sketches 26 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,120 Just to clarify to the artists like what the angles are and stuff that I want so should go fairly quickly 27 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,120 But we'll see we'll see how that goes 28 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:48,360 And then I need to do research for crowdfunding and other follow-up actions that I will address later 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,840 You can see them in the show notes if you want to and on the back burner 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,840 I've still got the breastfeeding book and the fantasy dragon book 31 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,540 Let's see completed works this week. So I didn't actually write anything new 32 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,280 except for 33 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,000 Well, Fabulous Machina doesn't count 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,740 So I didn't write anything new but I did come up with a naming scheme or titling scheme for my holy heroes universe book 35 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:16,400 so here we go, it's gonna be series title colon heroes name or teams name colon book title and 36 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,400 And 37 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,920 So I'm gonna share with you what I came up with so far 38 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:26,740 So I'm going to use code names for now, but for my first entry in the series, it would be holy heroes 39 00:02:26,740 --> 00:02:28,740 That's the series overall 40 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:30,760 Angel that's the name of the character 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,480 It's the code name for the character and then acts of mercy would be the title for book one 42 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,400 Maybe so holy heroes angel acts of mercy and then it'd be holy 43 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:45,080 Heroes angel, you know wrath of God or something like that for the other titles. I don't know what they are yet 44 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,920 So I will come up with those later and then I analyzed on brothers 32 45 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,120 Topi 11 and keeps six and I didn't do any artwork this week 46 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:59,280 There I did not make time for that. So that didn't happen 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:05,500 and then I'll go ahead and paste in the audio notes from my 48 00:03:06,020 --> 00:03:10,040 Analysis this week and share with you the lessons I learned from these different shows 49 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,040 So 50 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,480 The lesson I learned from dawn brothers 32 is 51 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:24,460 Vision and passion will burn through the medium and touch your audience 52 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:30,320 There are folks who make somewhat compelling arguments that there is a major 53 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:38,720 Homo erotic subplot that defines two primary characters in dawn brothers that being taro and snowy 54 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,880 the hero main hero and the main villain of the show I 55 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:52,400 Don't know if Inoue is doing that intentionally or if this is a situation like how people make something out of the love 56 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,160 Between Jonathan and David in the Bible. I have nothing to say on the matter 57 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,700 There is a powerful dynamic between these characters and people love it 58 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:08,220 I think their interactions are beautifully filled with honor and warrior ethos and I don't care 59 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:15,100 That this has taken such a position of prominence over so much else in the show that could use the attention 60 00:04:15,580 --> 00:04:17,580 It is immensely enjoyable to watch 61 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:24,620 My point is whatever Inoue is trying to do or say it's making an impact 62 00:04:24,620 --> 00:04:28,580 I assume he cares about it either that or he's using 63 00:04:29,580 --> 00:04:31,340 T-tailors 64 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:36,080 Universal fantasy butter which is something you can find out more about if you just look up T-tailor or 65 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,080 Universal fantasy butter 66 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:46,440 To make this pair thrilling to watch and I think that's pretty interesting and I think if it is just the 67 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,880 universal fantasy butter of 68 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,720 whether it's a enemies to lovers or 69 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,960 you know 70 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,360 best frenemies or you know friends who are 71 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:04,000 People who are friends and enemies simultaneously and there's honor in that and they still stick to their allegiances 72 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Despite the fact that they have caring, you know caring and affection for each other then that's that's pretty interesting 73 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,160 And either of those things are universal fantasy. So anyway, very interesting stuff 74 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,800 lessons learned from food. Oh p.i. Episode 11 I 75 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,680 previously spoken of the importance of vague rules a 76 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,160 Derivative idea from that is to leave yourself room 77 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,600 Is to leave yourself room to explore details and elements of your world 78 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,560 This doesn't have to be done with a plan for doing great things down the line 79 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,680 Not everything has to be planned in elaborate detail 80 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,680 Sometimes when asking yourself, what does this do? It is okay to say I don't know 81 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,080 I'll figure it out later if I ever need to 82 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:56,880 You don't have to go down every rabbit trail and you don't even have to know where everyone is 83 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,360 To explore it when the time is right 84 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,120 My lessons learned from comedy geeks episode 6 are 85 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:10,160 You can make a character detestable interesting and disposable all at the same time 86 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,560 Morioh could have been played 87 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,360 Sympathetically, but Takahashi went a different way 88 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:21,920 He built him up as clever and crafty and he showed his hideous colors before dispatching him from the story 89 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:28,560 So I think up until this point up until episode 6 we saw negative aspects of the character 90 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,520 but we didn't see how bad he was and 91 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:40,160 Like there's a whole there could be a whole sympathetic backstory to him that we're not seeing now that Takahashi just kind of sets up in seeds and then 92 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,960 apparently, we're never gonna see the fruition of that because 93 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,840 This character is going away from the game and he and the story and he'll be off in his own world doing whatever 94 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:51,840 But I found that very interesting 95 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,680 Because I would have expected more to have been done with him 96 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,280 whether it be flashbacks or different insights into his character, but he's just a person who 97 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,600 Finds 98 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:07,360 What 99 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,480 The rules of a system are or the rules of a game are and figures out ways to exploit them to his benefit 100 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,080 To the exclusion of others and he doesn't care about hurting others 101 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,240 Which I guess is enough. That's all we really need to know about him. That's what we were shown. So 102 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,680 I know just it's interesting to me 103 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:30,640 That you don't have you I guess part of it is that you also don't have to make one of these sympathetic villains somebody who 104 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,840 The narrative cares about like the care the audience can like them 105 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,880 But they can also just be a tool that you're using to move your plot forward into 106 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,720 Add characterization to your heroes or your main cast or whoever it is. Um, so that's that's pretty interesting 107 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,040 Okay, and now I will paste in the fabula ex machina 108 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,320 They say that rules are meant to be broken 109 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,960 But they aren't if everybody broke the rules that would be bad 110 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:03,280 Imagine coming to an intersection and everybody runs the red lights 111 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,280 People would be smashing into each other people be getting into accidents 112 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,480 Their cars would be getting ruined people would be dying 113 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,120 It would be really bad 114 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,880 Think about if everybody at their job didn't follow the rules 115 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:22,160 If rules are meant to be broken then farmers would plan at the wrong time and 116 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,320 Plants wouldn't come out the way they were supposed to and we would all starve to death 117 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,120 following the rules 118 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,760 Is a thing 119 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:34,880 Following the rules is a thing 120 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:41,520 Following the rules is a good thing and it's something that we should do because when you follow the rules, you know exactly 121 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,920 What results you're going to get? 122 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,920 Sometimes though you have to follow the rules 123 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:57,040 I'm sorry. Sometimes though you have to break the rules. The thing is you have to know when you can break the rules 124 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,600 Right now i'm in a situation where i'm in big trouble 125 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,440 and 126 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,280 and 127 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,280 If I follow the rules 128 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,160 I could be in bigger trouble 129 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,840 So i'm thinking 130 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,840 Is this the right time? 131 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,200 To do the wrong thing 132 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,840 And if it is the right time to do the wrong thing 133 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,800 Because it will save someone's life 134 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:33,280 Does that mean that it's really the right thing to do after all? 135 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,120 I don't really know 136 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,960 I'm just a kid 137 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,600 I don't know how to answer that kind of question, but I do know one thing 138 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,240 I know that if I 139 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,160 Do this right now 140 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,080 I can save somebody's life 141 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:55,120 And that's more important to me than following some rule. So that's what i'm going to do 142 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,640 There is just one little problem that I hadn't thought about until right now 143 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,200 If I go 144 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,120 into the lab 145 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,120 And get the tools that I need to do this 146 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,040 I'm gonna have to either 147 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,600 Sneak by everybody 148 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,920 Lie to them 149 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,640 Or find some way 150 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,640 I can't hurt them. I'm not strong enough 151 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,400 Maybe find some way to distract them all with a diversion so I can go in there and get what I need 152 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,240 It should take me about five minutes to walk to the lab 153 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:33,760 And I think I have 154 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,280 About an hour before anyone's life is really in danger 155 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 So I can 156 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 So if I hurry up 157 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,800 And think hard and fast 158 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,960 I should be able to get out there 159 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,520 in time 160 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,760 To do what needs to be done 161 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,440 Can I really just figure this out on the fly this isn't a game lives are at stake here 162 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,880 It doesn't matter. I know 163 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:14,240 What I'm capable of and I know what this technology can do and I know 164 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,120 If I make the right moves at the right time 165 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,640 It'll all be okay 166 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,600 It'll all be okay 167 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,640 Oh 168 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:32,160 It'll all be okay as long as everything goes perfectly how hard can it be right? 169 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:39,520 I hope you enjoyed that if you did you can find more at mjmunoz.com as well as my entire library of analysis art and fiction