1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,720 This is MJ Muñoz. You are listening to Story Over Everything, the chronicles of an author, 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:11,600 artist, and analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. This recording was originally 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,720 started on October 28th, 2022, and I'm just going to say that's when it was recorded, 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,680 because that's mostly true. Anyway, I'm going to be live writing a prompt this session, 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,000 which will be What Makes a Hunter Heroic? And yeah, we'll see how I do. First I'm going 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,520 to get into my work in progress and let you know what I have done as I'm working towards 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:41,160 becoming a published author. And the Grow Bug series is not chugging along, it's creeping 8 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:47,840 along. And I was able to, from last week, well last week I had assigned for myself to 9 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:55,800 get done by 1028 sketches for 32 pages or 16 spreads of my Grow Bug book 1. I was not 10 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,420 able to complete that. By 1028 I had done 6 spreads, which means that for next week 11 00:01:01,420 --> 00:01:07,080 I will have to do 10 more spreads. So unfortunately I didn't write that in my notes off to see 12 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:13,320 if it's in my show notes properly or not, but basically I'm a week late in getting, 13 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:17,800 no I'm two weeks late now in getting all my thumbnails done for me to get to my artist, 14 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:23,880 but I'm making progress slowly but surely, so I hope I will do better by this next Friday, 15 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:29,320 which is going to be what 1105 or 1104? Anyway, we'll see. We will see what happens. I have 16 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:34,280 to put the work in and make it happen. So my next action would be do sketches, thumbnail 17 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:40,280 sketches for pages or spread 7 through 16 for Grow Bug Book 1. In the show notes there's 18 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,120 follow up research or there's follow up stuff and there's back burner stuff that I'm going 19 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,680 to omit from the audio record here, so I'm not wasting your time or mine. And I did no 20 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,400 writing and no drawing this week other than the sketches, which I'm not counting other 21 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,000 than my Fabula X Machina, which I will also not count from last week, but I did enjoy 22 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:05,400 that one a lot. So anyway, this week I analyzed the following shows, Dawn Brothers 34 and 23 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,040 Kamen Rider Geets, so it's a Super Sentai, it's an Avatar Sentai, Dawn Brothers 34, and 24 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:18,600 then Kamen Rider Geets Episode 8. And I will go ahead and drop in my audio from the full 25 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,360 analysis of each of those shows that I did where I share my lessons learned, so I will 26 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,120 be quiet for a few moments, let myself drop those in, and then on the other side of that 27 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:32,760 we are going to talk about the prompt, well I guess I'll be putting the prompt in and 28 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:38,280 we will go from there. Lessons learned from Dawn Brothers 34. There are two or three fights 29 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,440 in every episode of a Super Sentai, most of them are a blur. I remember Joe from Gokaiju 30 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,480 and his friend turned enemy. It has been more than 10 years since Gokaiju ended, and I still 31 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,320 remember that. I adore the side conflicts and personal bonds that characters share in Dawn 32 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,240 Brothers. I think I'll remember Haruka and Sonazza talking about her slump as a manga 33 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,440 author while they fight. I think I'll remember Taro and Sonazza sharing Odin. What is this 34 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,920 that Inoue is doing? Whatever it is, I want to do that because it feels like a key to 35 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,920 making something that will really stick with people. Would that be called constructing 36 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:12,280 a story within a story or something else? Like what's the name of the technique? Is it 37 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:17,720 just making complex layered characters? I feel like I have discovered something that is already 38 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,480 known in the literary world, but I don't have the name for it. This is what I get for being a 39 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,160 self-taught writer. Anyway, if you know what to call it, please chime in and let me know. 40 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:32,680 And then to put it into a real sharp, pointy thing, a bullet point, I have it framed this way. 41 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,600 Secondary connections between characters make for a richer, more engaging story. I guess it's 42 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,720 the takeaway, but I still don't know what to call that technique or whatever. 43 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:48,280 From, or this is for my lessons learned segment pertaining to, Comrade Ergates, Episode 8. 44 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:55,880 Push your characters out of their comfort zones to get the most out of them. This all-out hero act 45 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:02,200 fighting to take what he wants isn't Keila. He wants to get buy, he wants to get a buy-in from 46 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,160 others and would have just let things happen before. I mean, before this, he would have just 47 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,000 let things happen and however they happen, they happen, he would have accepted it. But this time, 48 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,080 he took control and did what he had to do. That was exciting to watch as an audience member and 49 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:20,680 I enjoy how his fellow writers reacted to this change as well. If I had to put a fine point on 50 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:27,560 this lesson learned, which I will do now, it would be this. Use a character's traits and interactions 51 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,280 as a reference point to show their growth as you push them out of their comfort zone as far 52 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:37,720 as you can. I'm not sure what this prompt is going to be called. For right now as a filler, 53 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:45,800 I'm calling it, What Makes a Hunter Heroic? And here we go. 54 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,120 I've set a timer for myself for 10 minutes. I'm wasting a little bit of my time telling you that, 55 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:59,400 but I'm having a hard time coming up with this idea. I will be pausing and unpausing as I need to, 56 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,360 to record myself without recording all the awkward silences in between. 57 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:17,960 Biting wind roused me from fleeting slumber as I waited 58 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:26,200 for the wind to fade endlessly to hear the cry of my falcon. 59 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Many days had passed since 60 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,320 I was able to catch anything 61 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,760 that I had been hunting for a long time. 62 00:05:51,800 --> 00:06:03,160 I had not been hunting on my own for long, but all the years I spent 63 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:15,320 with my elders told me something was wrong. They had survived many winters of lean, 64 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:25,320 but I had so few 65 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:34,360 winters on my own and they were mild. 66 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:42,360 Many misfortunes befell us this year, 67 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:48,360 and we had little left remaining to eat. 68 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:56,360 My focus shifted as hunger gnawed within me. 69 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:02,360 I had taken no provisions on this hunt, 70 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:12,360 preferring to leave as much as I could at home. 71 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:18,360 The duty of a hunter is not to eat, 72 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:24,360 the duty of a hunter is to catch, to kill, to provide. 73 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:34,360 What better motivation or remembrance is there for me to have? 74 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:44,360 What better motivation or remembrance is there for me to have as I seek food 75 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:50,360 than to feel the hunger of those I left behind? 76 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,360 I will not eat until they do. 77 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:06,360 There is much in me that cannot be seen. 78 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:38,360 And I will put all the outline out there if I decide to. 79 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,360 I have nothing against it necessarily, and since an outline is an outline, 80 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,360 and you give an outline to ten different authors, you'll get ten completely different stories, 81 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,360 I'm not scared that someone's going to steal my outline. 82 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,360 And yeah, so I'm just going to put it out there and we will see what happens. 83 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,360 I hope you enjoyed that. 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