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