1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:15,040 This is Story Over Everything episode 22, Grow Bug Tales Whip or Work in Public, chapter 7 and 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:24,400 chapter, actually Children's Picture Book number 4, Rewrite. So I talk about it later on so I'll 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,000 just let you go through the experience with me. It's going to be a lot of audio for me in different 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,480 places, dictating or speaking notes and thinking about the story aloud into the microphone, into 6 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:38,320 the phone and sending that to you. So that's what you're going to get in this episode and by the end 7 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,720 of it I have some really cool progress that I've made and I'm going to tell you all about that at 8 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,760 the end of the episode. So I will let it evolve and then do the recap at the end and let it be 9 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:59,520 that for now and that's it. So I'm starting to do my audio recording for transcription of chapter 7 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:05,120 of Grow Bug Tales. This is the beginning of Grow Bug Tales. Grow Bug Tales chapter 7 features Hiss. 11 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:12,640 It is the retelling from Hiss' perspective of Cat and the Grow Bug for some background. 12 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:18,400 And I guess this is spoilers for Cat and the Grow Bug but this book comes out before then. It tells 13 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,000 the other side of the story. It's not really intended for the children's audience plus there's 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,240 the story beyond it and I'm telling a totally different perspective which I think will be okay. 15 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:38,160 Anyway in Cat and the Grow Bug, Hiss is a moth grow bug who is actually in need of help from somebody 16 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:46,480 and she's in need of a friend to help her see through what she's stuck in and basically she 17 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:58,000 was infected by, infected and affected by a spore from a... from a spud of despair I believe is what 18 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,400 I called it. I'm not looking at my notes, this is all off memory and she became a spectator. I think 19 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:14,720 or spooktator that's what it is. So she's a lumpy looking weird ghost thing trapped in a labyrinth 20 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:25,280 of despair sprouted by the spud of despair spore getting in her and blossoming. So she's in a state 21 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:36,800 where as this spooktator she is utterly sad and lonely and depressed basically and you can even 22 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:46,560 say she's a bit of a couch potato and she can't get up and do these things on her own and instead 23 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:55,840 this maladaptive behavior takes place where she attempts to capture people who come into her way 24 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:06,400 or who you know happen across her path and the goal is to take happy memories from them and feed off 25 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:17,600 of them but the problem is that affected as she is by the spore of the spud of despair and in the 26 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:28,560 state of being a mere spooktator even consuming the good wholesome happy memories of others is not 27 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:36,880 enough to bring her joy and happiness. It may last for a moment but it can't go beyond that and that's 28 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,800 really sad. That's really sad and I guess I'm sort of talking about depression but also friendship 29 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:50,480 and teamwork with the story because in that book Kat feels excluded and alone because her cousins 30 00:03:50,480 --> 00:04:00,560 who happen to be the other grow bug kids Rex, Ava, and Harmony they're over for a sleepover 31 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:06,080 and it's not going the way she wants and she feels that they are excluding her and that leads her 32 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:12,960 to a negative emotion spiral which is seized upon by this spooktator and then all of them are drawn 33 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:20,880 into the spooktator's labyrinth and in there you know she attempts to harvest memories from them but it will never work 34 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:28,400 and it ultimately the kids escape through teamwork and helping each other and the grow bugs come and rescue them 35 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:37,440 and then Kat who also escapes along with her cousins and their grow bugs is outside of the labyrinth 36 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:47,600 and the grow bugs fight as a team but you know individually doing their own tactics to try to 37 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:55,520 defeat the spooktator which has become enraged and has taken a you know violent visceral form 38 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,720 and is attacking these children and their grow bugs because it wants to seize them for their happiness 39 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:08,080 and Ava has no not Ava Kat has the bright idea for the grow bugs to combine so that they can 40 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:15,520 become a more powerful being yes this is uh it's organic gata it's a combination robot well no they 41 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,920 don't they turn into little machines and then they turn into a combination robot a la Power Rangers 42 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:27,760 or Super Sentai better yet and while they are fighting the spooktator and having some successes 43 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:36,240 I believe they're unable to actually overcome it and what happens instead is that Kat recognizes 44 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:45,360 that the reason the spooktator is attacking is because it is broken and sad and empty and hollow 45 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:52,320 and she feels the same way because she knows how it feels she has sympathy which I believe is the 46 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,600 correct word it's when you know the actual feeling versus empathy is when you can 47 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,160 understand the feeling intellectually and you feel badly for the person because of that but she is 48 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,840 resonating sympathetically with the grow bug who she doesn't know is a grow bug who's a spooktator 49 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:13,920 who's attacking them because she knows that deep down inside it is hurt and alone and just wants a 50 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:20,480 friend so she runs back into the labyrinth finds her way to the center of it where uh 51 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:28,400 where the grow bug the B grow bug who goes by the name of something or other which I forgot hold 52 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:38,160 on let me check my list real quick who goes by the name of his is trapped and alone and unable to 53 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:44,560 escape from the cage of sorrow and sadness that she's in when in reality the cage of sorrow and 54 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:52,080 sadness is open on one side and she's just turned around not looking at the empty space only looking 55 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:58,000 at the bars and seeing that she cannot escape however her interaction with cat and cats bid 56 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:07,040 or offer to be her friend awakens her and helps her to turn around and see the truth that all she 57 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:13,680 has to do is come out of the cage and she can be free of her sadness and she can be free of her 58 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:23,040 sadness and uh together they leave the monster outside disappears the spooktator is no more 59 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:32,160 and the labyrinth dissipates and uh this grow bug is reunited with you know this grow bug now has a 60 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:39,920 friend of a human his is now friends with cat see what I did there and cat and the grow bugs and her 61 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:47,440 friends uh all embrace his and I believe they have a fun sleepover party late into the night 62 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:54,800 uh before the grow bugs have to leave and go on their own so with that summary of cat and the 63 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,920 grow bug with the understanding of the issue that his is dealing with and the fact that his is 64 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,560 actually in not in the majority of the book because she's taking this other form the form of this 65 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:17,760 spooktator how do I tell that story when swoosh took over who is from uh Ava and the grow bug 66 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:26,640 she acknowledged that in the story of twang and hya that there was the power of love that helped 67 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:34,320 them out in that situation but she advocated for uh this might be spoilers for the book the power of 68 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,120 courage instead because if you have the courage of heart you can do anything regardless of whether 69 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:44,560 or not you love somebody and maybe in some strange way you can even see courage as being a form of 70 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:51,440 love it's a love so big and brave that it won't be intimidated and it's a love so profound and 71 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:58,080 compassionate that it doesn't really care who it's risking its life for which I think is super 72 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:04,960 interesting in harmony in the grow bug the harmony in the grow bug story is about empathy but the 73 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:17,040 story that wisp tells instead the butterfly grow bug is one of not joyfully accepting 74 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:24,160 whatever comes to you because it is ultimately something happening for you not to you but 75 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:30,320 it acknowledges that through the darkness and through the difficulties there is growth and 76 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,480 there is strength found or an opportunity for growth to be had and strength to be found 77 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:44,800 and in a way it talks about like heroic service and duty to others because while harmony does 78 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,680 basically break free of her delusion on her own really with the help of her parents in the in the 79 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:57,040 dream world it is only through being empowered by wisp that she's able to actually overcome 80 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:07,280 the conflict and the difficulty she was facing so she was misled was blind was confused she 81 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:12,400 gained clarity but then along with her clarity clarity and being correct about something is not 82 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:20,960 enough you need to have the power and the ability to do something so harmony got the power and the 83 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,640 maybe the agency or maybe she already had the agency but she didn't have the effective leverage 84 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:31,680 or the the tools that she needed to actually affect the change she wanted to and wisp became 85 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:36,880 that for her in kind of a mechanistic cold way like she wasn't mean or anything but it wasn't 86 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,520 like oh i love you my friend it's you're my friend i'm going to help you it's you're in trouble you 87 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:50,240 need help i'm going to help you in whatever way i can and here with cat and the grow bug we have 88 00:10:50,240 --> 00:11:02,000 cat rescuing hiss the grow bug from her sadness and despair and helping hiss helped cat she 89 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:12,000 she empathized with cat or with hiss rather and was able to offer her the thing that she needed 90 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:20,400 most and in doing so she became whole and that power and that beauty and that light was shared 91 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:26,640 and spread and it broke through the darkness that was consuming both of them so then relating that 92 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:36,560 back to this story does that mean i totally got interrupted had a conversation or two and now i 93 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:41,840 cannot remember does that mean what does that imply that i should do what with cat and the grow bug 94 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:51,200 harmony was helped in a not you know in a neutral just way good way because that's what grow bugs do 95 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:59,360 and now this girl bug is lost and hurt and in need of help and cat is the one who ends up doing it 96 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,600 in that book so that's what she empathizes and has sympathy with her and you know wants to break 97 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:12,480 through the darkness because she felt the pain of being friendless and lonely and didn't want 98 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:17,840 somebody else to feel that way so when she went outside of herself she you know broke through that 99 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:26,800 but what does that mean and what is the lesson that hiss has for the grow bug cadets is it that grow 100 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:37,280 bug cadets can go bad too i don't know i actually am thinking that i should use that concept that grow 101 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:46,320 bags grow bugs can go bad too and maybe and this is not dictation this is actually for developing 102 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:56,800 the book later the cybugs are a thing from harmony and the grow bug in the background you don't know 103 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,200 about it through reading the book and all right at least i don't think you do i don't think i 104 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,720 mention it them in there at all but it's in my backstory and my notes that i made on developing 105 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,920 the story and there's this whole other thing and i didn't know what to do with the cybugs or where 106 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:18,160 they came from or anything like that except i do have a notion of somebody using animal cyborgs 107 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:24,960 even including insects for different purposes and it just hit me what if a grow bug can go bad 108 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:36,000 and what if the first cybug like it's a fallen angel fallen grow bug and what if the first cybug 109 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:46,160 is actually a grow bug who's fallen and become corrupted because of whatever and it can be kind 110 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,800 of like a you know cool motive still murder situation where and i'm not going to go over 111 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,800 the backstory but you know something happened with this grow bug maybe it's a very old high 112 00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:01,840 ascended grow bug a grow bug oh what do you call that not wizard whatever i can't remember what 113 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,240 the highest level of grow bug is but maybe it's one of those and it fell and it's become an enemy 114 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,880 of mankind now instead of fulfilling its purpose it's doing the opposite and maybe it's doing that 115 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,080 through um somehow it got mixed up with these with the project apex or whatever it's called that 116 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:23,200 generates these animal cyborgs and it actually sends an army of cybugs out to destroy these 117 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:29,600 grow bugs and maybe all of this happens not too too long after the harmony and the grow bug 118 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:36,080 situation because cybugs were interfered with at that time by well they were interfered with i think 119 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:42,240 by the actions of uh wisp that were not included in this book or in that book because i kind of 120 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:50,560 want to put them in a different book um but what if we have that uh you know army of evil cybug 121 00:14:50,560 --> 00:15:00,160 things sent by a corrupted grow bug and that part of this story that his is going to tell 122 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:06,640 is how she fell into that darkness proving that grow bugs can fall into darkness can become 123 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:13,760 corrupted can have these negative things happen to them and then that can be turned into uh a point 124 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:21,440 that she makes that can be seeding and foreshadowing this evil cybug evil grow bug behind these 125 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,080 cybugs that are going to come attack their camp and that way it's bug on bug action that can be 126 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,360 kind of more interesting more exciting that's at least a thought for now 127 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:39,120 getting back on track for what is the story that i want to tell for 128 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:48,480 his side of things in grow bug tales i do like the idea of mentioning or speaking about touching on 129 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:56,160 the vulnerability of grow bugs to fall i don't know if i want it to be i don't know like jedi 130 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:01,760 where you know you're afraid that you're going to fall to the dark side and you can be seduced by 131 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:07,760 the dark side because that i don't think that makes sense that just the grow bugs can be seduced by 132 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:15,520 the grow bugs can be doing something and then they can make the wrong choice and then slowly that 133 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:22,960 wrong choice will corrupt them and turn them evil i was considering the danger presented to be that 134 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:31,120 of loneliness or yeah maybe like the corruption of being alone because while the grow bugs do 135 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:38,560 have to act as independent operators in the field that's just them at the tip of the spear behind 136 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:49,040 them you have the seers and the keepers who work to maintain the grow bug society and to connect them 137 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:58,880 to humans uh children who are in danger from hobnots that they can perform their duty that they were 138 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:07,600 made for i had a thought about maybe you know using the a chain is only as strong as its weakest link 139 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:15,760 type argument and maybe linking that with the chitin of a young bug is soft and flexible and 140 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:22,000 doesn't offer that much protection versus the chitin of an older grow bug is going to be rigid 141 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:32,960 and very strong and able to defend them and maybe talking about the group as like a shell or shield 142 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:41,520 or barrier and that there are soft spots and when they're stressed they can become hardened but i 143 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,920 don't know if that's accurate and i don't know why they would know about chains necessarily or why 144 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,680 they would you know use chains with the grow bug cadets would know about chains that doesn't really 145 00:17:49,680 --> 00:18:00,560 make sense do i have his explain how she got to the point where the spore of the sorrow spud 146 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:07,840 had an effect on her because i would think that well yeah it would kind of be interesting if 147 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,360 it could only have an effect on you if you lacked resolve or lack the strength of heart 148 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:22,000 and i kind of i'm okay with his being cautious and i don't know coming from this place of 149 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:29,840 vulnerability and weakness uh where she feels badly about having you know become a hobnaut 150 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:34,640 which is kind of what hya was saying so that's maybe a little too repetitious but i was thinking 151 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:41,760 maybe she should be cautious and like dubious about things now and what if that kind of or 152 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:48,160 that caution rather is kind of what endears her to rustle and maybe she's you know the fully 153 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:55,360 mature balanced portion or balanced uh iteration of that where she has the caution but she also 154 00:18:55,360 --> 00:19:02,080 has the strength to act decisively when she must like she's still an operable feed field agent 155 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,880 because she's able to balance that out she can be cautious she might be a little you know slow or 156 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:12,800 whatever at certain things but she's gonna get in the thick of it when the time is right and maybe 157 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:21,280 that can contrast with i feel like chirp probably uh resonates with whoosh or was it swoosh okay i 158 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:27,280 think it's whoosh maybe it's swoosh let's go with swoosh for now but the ladybug from ava and the 159 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:38,640 grow bug one of his his story tells of how she became ensnared by the labyrinth of loneliness 160 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:51,120 and the spud of despair spore and it's almost a cautionary tale and an and an advisement to 161 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:57,040 the grobacadets about how they need to use discretion and caution in the field so that they 162 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:07,760 don't become well so they don't become entrapped and weak and in need of assistance like she became 163 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:14,560 and said they can be strong resilient adaptable uh you know members of grobac society that can help 164 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:22,480 i can help almost like her story is a story of the virtue of caution and again that can be something 165 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:31,520 that uh that russell really resonates with and it can be something that bothers chirp and maybe 166 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,720 there can be another back and forth uh featuring the grobacadets but mostly the two of them as they 167 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:47,760 talk about what uh what she did what if i use as a subtitle for this story from chapter seven his 168 00:20:47,760 --> 00:21:00,080 and the sorrow spud a tale of the virtue of caution or how i learned to start worrying 169 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:08,560 or how i learned to start worrying and take care of myself i was thinking that i did want to focus on 170 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:16,480 the dangers within and the dangers without you know they know about the dangers of external things 171 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:24,160 like shadows and whatnot but are they thinking about and are they concerned about the dangers 172 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:32,320 within which are that a lack of caution a lack of care a lack of focus just because they're grow 173 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:40,400 bugs doesn't mean that they're invincible and invulnerable you know uh we saw hya get infected 174 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:47,840 by the vexivore uh twang did to an extent as well even though that was more on purpose but that they 175 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:53,760 are susceptible and that there is danger for them maybe bring home the fact that there's danger it's 176 00:21:53,760 --> 00:22:00,880 not just a fear not just a fear or caution of them falling and becoming corrupted which is much more 177 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:07,600 or which is very unlikely to happen but there is the caution that they have to have because they 178 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:13,440 aren't invulnerable like i said and things can happen to them which will end their mission and 179 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,560 that's not good and those things come from maybe a lack of focus a lack of caution a lack of 180 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:28,400 self-awareness so it's good it's wise to have an understanding that they are all part of a chain 181 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,280 they're all part of a chain even though they don't understand so they're all part of something bigger 182 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:40,880 and interconnected and it's the duty of each member to take care of themselves as best as they can 183 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:47,360 for the good of the collective so that they can all continue to keep on their mission and 184 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:56,560 and because of that they need to not slack off to not forget themselves to not let themselves 185 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:08,400 become complacent almost like saying there is a duty for you as a grow bug as a field agent as 186 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:15,920 someone who has the responsibility to save the lives of others that you need to take care of 187 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:25,280 yourself and courage isn't enough you need to temper it with caution because if you don't 188 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:36,160 you're going to foolishly rush into a situation and have yourself turned into a liability 189 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:44,160 an enemy or some strange thing in between like the spook jader 190 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:52,560 I suppose right now the question I'm asking myself is what was his doing that got her stuck 191 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:59,280 there's a couple questions what got her stuck with the spud spore the sorrow spud spore or 192 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:05,200 whatever it's called what got her stuck with that and then was she chained to the location 193 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:14,480 where this happened and or was she able to move around and then another question what is a 194 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:23,280 sorrow spud and why does it exist is it animal vegetable and mineral I'm going to say it's not 195 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:32,400 mineral it's definitely vegetable to some extent I wonder if it can be a vegetable 196 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,960 a vegetable that has 197 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:49,920 a way of feeding itself which is to be parasitic or like a virus I guess parasitic is more accurate 198 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:57,040 and it interacts with the life form and it alters it and changes it and then turns that thing into a 199 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:06,560 host to gather more energy and life force to itself and I think I like the idea of it being 200 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:20,000 tied to a single location so that it can hold on to the they can kind of like conserve energy 201 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,920 and it's kind of like a sarlacc it stays in one place and doesn't do anything other than try to 202 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:32,160 try to feed and keep existing honestly a sarlacc comes to mind if I didn't already say that I had 203 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:41,680 to pause my recording real quick but I'm back and I think that that approximates a natural system 204 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:47,440 now this could be let's just say that's an I really love the concept of invasive species being 205 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:55,840 enemies or foes and part of that is because I like to think about things being in a naturalistic 206 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:03,680 way I like to have a a natural or realistic construction to my worlds and when you have 207 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,680 invasive species there's nothing that predates them and therefore they go out of control and 208 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,160 they throw the ecosystem out of balance and it's not that every single one of those entities or 209 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,360 you know life forms need to be because it could be plant tubes needs to be destroyed off of the face 210 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:24,320 of the planet it's that it doesn't it's not well suited to this environment and maybe other things 211 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,160 can be brought in here to balance it out and bring it into well a sense of balance and have 212 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:35,760 a natural order be restored or a new natural order grafted on to somewhere where there had 213 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:41,280 been a disruption because there is such thing as equilibrium and things will swing both ways until 214 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:47,680 they finally come to a median but that the truth is that since there are many factors and we have 215 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:53,360 you know open systems within the planet that you have all these different things interfering 216 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:58,400 with each other and interacting with each other and creating all sorts of edges and 217 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,480 areas of friction and opportunity and just anyway it's it's just really interesting and I think you 218 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:11,360 can get so much good solid logical reasonable types of conflict out of those things without 219 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:18,480 saying this is evil well okay it doesn't it devastates this area because there's nothing 220 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,600 to counteract it if there were a natural thing that counteracted it here or if we had something 221 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:30,560 that adapted to it to counteract it then it would fall into a harmonious you know mean and that 222 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:36,560 would be fine it'd be great maybe we could even manipulate things like that to at least on a 223 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,320 micro scale to bring about some desired effect that we want it's a anyway the way nature works 224 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,800 it's almost like like if you ever built a yu-gi-oh deck I only have I don't have experiences like 225 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,920 magic but if you've got like a yu-gi-oh deck like the way you can get the cards that run in there 226 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:57,360 to operate in a certain way as far as effects or magic spells or different types of you know 227 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:04,320 types of monster fairy monster light monster whatever you can use different tactics to create 228 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,880 like a little sub ecosystem within them that they connect to each other and they have a network 229 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,760 effect that's higher with each other that's more capable and I think that's a really neat idea 230 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:21,280 anyway what I was saying was or to get back to my point is I like this idea of a naturalistic 231 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:26,640 a natural mimicking system of things in my world so if this you know spud spore 232 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,120 if this sorrow spud is some sort of plant and I think it should look like a potato and act 233 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:39,360 like a potato that's funny and kind of neat um 234 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:47,040 oh man um maybe it's even something under the ground specifically and for whatever reason so I 235 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,680 I need to come up with a reason that hiss was in there and got affected by now that I have a good 236 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:59,120 grasp and understanding of this and to summarize and that's a key word there chat gpt to summarize 237 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,120 or the summary of this would be that 238 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:08,160 the sorrow spud spore which is called that by people who encounter it in our world comes from 239 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:17,760 another world and it is an invasive species here and what it does is it immobilizes other life 240 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:27,120 forms and then it feeds off of them and in order to keep itself and them alive it one immobilizes 241 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:36,560 them to minimize their energy expenditure and two it causes them to become a funnel basically 242 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:46,720 in order to bring more nutrient to itself through whatever means so let's say the 243 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:53,600 sorrow spud spore has a tentacle or a spore that connects to a life form and then a connection is 244 00:29:53,600 --> 00:30:00,720 formed based on that to the spud itself or the spud roots and then from that other branches come 245 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:06,240 out one organism hits that two organisms hit that and then from them it's on opposite sides they 246 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,560 branch out even farther and maybe their feelers reach out towards each other and you can have 247 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:20,000 crossover between them or a nice expanding branching structure and you can basically get this 248 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:27,360 very far very fast branching out with almost like rhizomes if you think about plants like good grasses 249 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:34,880 including like bamboo and those spread out and then where they can they sprout up and it just kind 250 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:40,240 of goes from there so yeah the very natural system and for whatever reason and let's say it's not 251 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:48,240 that it's in cat's backyard it's somewhere else that it started and it's not that it's in the 252 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:58,800 started and they're cutting off hiss from that branch of the sorrow spud structure and you know 253 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,640 there's more to be dealt with and maybe that's something that can be expanded upon further at a 254 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:08,400 later time not in this story at all i would suggest then and this might be something that i 255 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:21,840 add back into cat and the key of kindness is that the sorrow spud is able to take the energy of 256 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,400 the host that it's attached itself to and it's growing parasitically with it's able to mimic it 257 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,640 and adapt it's almost like a symbiote right it can mimic and reproduce some of its abilities 258 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:43,280 which is why potentially this would be a really fun idea when cat and hiss have escaped from the 259 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:51,360 labyrinth of loneliness they are still able to encounter and fight and you know what let's 260 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:58,080 sixth ranger this up and have hiss the moth grow bug join in with the other grow bugs in their 261 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:07,920 combination to complete it to cut off the spud monster thing 100 from the sorrow spud and have 262 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,960 it be destroyed it withers away it blows up whatever it does but i think that would be a cool 263 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:20,960 extra dimension to add to it and that's a way to keep the sorrow spud interesting in later appearances 264 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:31,680 now because the sorrow spud is a potato mimicking type thing it would have growth underground and 265 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,600 it would spread from there its network or its net that it would catch things in in order to incorporate 266 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:45,600 them into itself and ensure its persistent life so what i'm thinking is somehow 267 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:53,840 this is a note to pay attention to hiss was rooting around in the ground for something 268 00:32:53,840 --> 00:33:03,120 one of her grow bug grow bug activities which is g-r-o-b-u-g no debya there and while she was doing 269 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:14,320 that she was afflicted by a spore or caught in the spud network and due to that she was able to 270 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:24,160 due to that she became trapped by it and i do not know what story that was for 271 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:30,080 but i also don't really think it matters and i kind of don't want to elaborate on it 272 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:42,560 moving on from that i had considered making hisp hisp not hisp hiss the moth somebody who 273 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,600 is very much in alignment with 274 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:58,720 russell the moth as far as being a cautious person and i was considering having her story be one 275 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:05,280 be one the story that she tells to the grow bug cadets be one that focuses on the virtues of 276 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:18,000 caution however thinking all this out i do not see where her being cautious is relevant or hinted at 277 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:25,920 in the story of cat and the key of kindness i almost think the opposite could be true 278 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:35,600 and maybe maybe chirp can give russell a hard time about that that cat reached out to 279 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:45,600 his and made friends with her and it solved a lot of problems but she was only able to do that 280 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:52,480 because she had the courage and the outgoingness to a certain extent to go ahead and do that and 281 00:34:52,480 --> 00:35:00,800 his was almost kind of trapped in an introverted way where she was reclusive and secluded to herself 282 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:08,960 while suffering and wanting warm interactions with others but unable to get them and when cat 283 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:17,200 shook her from that she was able to bring her out so does that mean that his is a timid withdrawn 284 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:23,760 quiet kind of person or would it suggest that perhaps she's the opposite and maybe the 285 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:38,800 spud use that aspect of her to fuel its activities as her to draw others in to the labyrinth of 286 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:48,160 loneliness that would make sense what i'm trying to wind up to is should his point 287 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:59,760 or lesson be the importance of boldness and taking action that is good that you're not sure will work 288 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:10,480 does that have anything to do with faith and trust and can that be part of what she's saying 289 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:18,400 not the hippie dippy trust the process everything's happening to you you know for you not to you idea 290 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:24,720 that wisp brought up but maybe something i guess related to that but maybe something 291 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:32,640 that wisp brought up but maybe something i guess related to that which is that you don't know 292 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:39,440 what's going to happen until you try so you may as well try and you might just surprise yourself 293 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:46,320 and do something amazing like depending on her personality i can see her lamenting being stuck 294 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:52,000 as a spooktator and not thinking that was something good at all or not focusing on trying to see the 295 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,760 good in it except for the fact that when someone took a chance on her she was able to get free 296 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:08,480 and then when she took a chance with them they were able to get free faster and permanently and 297 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:14,640 you know what now this is making me think i might need to rearrange the scenario a little in the 298 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:23,680 cat book in order to make it so that hiss coming out of the labyrinth and then facing the monster 299 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:31,200 is what brings it to the point where they have to where they get to combine and it's less that 300 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,960 she's going to play the six ranger role and that cat's going to randomly come up with the idea for 301 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,600 them to combine and it's going to be more that she sees that something's wrong and something's not 302 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:47,360 working their attacks are ineffectual so she goes in and gets hiss at that point brings hiss out 303 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:55,520 and then hiss suggests that they implement the power of teamwork much as 304 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:05,360 cat had done teamworky stuff with her to free her from the labyrinth that now they will free 305 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,600 themselves as a group by working together as a team and that is when we have the climactic moment 306 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:19,920 of them combining and then having combination robot grow bug grow bug night battle against the 307 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,600 mad unleashed crazy spook jeter 308 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:33,600 that sounds like a better idea and i think it will require minimal rewrites in cat and the key of 309 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:44,160 kindness and the lesson of being bold and taking and making calculated risks in order to succeed 310 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:50,080 and achieve something great can be very good foreshadowing for stuff that happens later in the 311 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:59,760 book with the heroic deeds undertaken by the cadets when things are at their worst for the robot 312 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:09,920 camp so perhaps i need to come up with a tiny synopsis and outline of what 313 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,320 his story is going to be 314 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:23,120 his story is going to be at this point or rather the story that she's going to tell 315 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:30,160 the grow bug cadets assembled there because the stage is hers and she's here to share with them 316 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:40,560 the theme object point of her story is being bold and taking action when you see a wild chance for 317 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:47,680 a wild chance for success especially when things are at their worst because sometimes those 318 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:56,480 wild bold outlandish moves are just the thing that you need in order to succeed and achieve your goals 319 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:07,040 that being the case which by the way i did not come up with a summary or a synopsis or a outline 320 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,800 for this section i know that it's too bad but thinking about that and thinking about her 321 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:20,160 character i think that she's going to be very brash and bold and that chirps actually like her 322 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:30,400 maybe best of all and that she won't let necessarily glimmer introduce her to the 323 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:37,200 crowd she's going to come into the circle and she won't be introspective and quiet like kya was and 324 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:46,320 uh she won't be hippie dippy like uh the last one like the butterfly um like wisp she will just 325 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,880 go out there and be super extroverted and hey grow bug cadets i've got a story for you listen up 326 00:40:52,880 --> 00:41:00,240 you're gonna like this one and you're gonna like it and you might even want to try it sometime 327 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:08,000 on your own so i'm breaking in to say that i actually did 10 minutes of writing earlier today 328 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,560 i uh just typed on the keyboard i actually wrote down that summary that i mentioned earlier in this 329 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:22,400 audio and i put it at the top of chapter seven of grow bug tales and i've done some reworking and 330 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:28,720 some rethinking and i was inspired to rewrite well basically the rewriting that i did today 331 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:35,280 was to change the fight that the three grow bugs have with spooktator so that they fight it and 332 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:40,880 defeat it on their own sort of uh but just like in super sendai power rangers once the thing is 333 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,880 defeated in its first form you know it then grows giant or whatever it's not going to go giant it's 334 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,880 just it's going to be defeated they're going to have a false moment of victory they're going to 335 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:55,920 realize something's bad then cat will go into the labyrinth do everything with hiss and then when cat 336 00:41:55,920 --> 00:42:00,880 and hiss emerge like i was just saying they will or hiss will have the great idea of hey let's 337 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:07,280 combine we can do this and there'll be maybe a question asked about that and she can say i know 338 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,240 we can you know if we're going to be friends you got to trust me and i'm going to do everything i 339 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:17,120 can to help you that's even nice i like that i'll do everything i can to help you and we're going to 340 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,920 you know overcome this guy and uh you know just watch what we grow bugs can do or something like 341 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,440 that because i do have a line in there about like well is that possible i don't know with all our 342 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:32,640 girlbugs done maybe they can uh so yeah i think that'll be fun and of course that's like a little 343 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:38,400 easter egg callback or easter egg if a little callback to uh for people who've read the other 344 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:45,760 books they'll know that harmony and turn into a common writer basically and uh ava turned into an 345 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:52,800 ultra man uh ultra woman ultra girl whatever uh with swoosh so uh yeah it's within the wheelhouse 346 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,040 of them to somehow turn into a you know magical robot what does that robot look like i don't know 347 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:06,480 yet um i'm going to start working on cover designs though uh for all five slash six books and um i 348 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,760 have a great idea but that's just tangent i won't be designing the robot now i'm going to wait you 349 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:17,680 know hopefully i can do all of the or the plan is to do all of the cover designs within a week 350 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:23,680 uh maybe you know 10 days at the most and then i will i guess have to come up with a little bit 351 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,160 of a design for that mecha but i don't know just some ideas i'm a little concerned about what it's 352 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,920 going to look like and i'm glad earlier when i was writing this is a lesson to learn i'm glad earlier 353 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:37,200 when i was writing uh this i don't know a month or so ago that i just or maybe it was two months 354 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:43,760 ago now i didn't focus on well i i need to have a praying mantis crane and a 355 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:51,440 and a ladybug jet and all that kind of stuff and i didn't waste my time or energy on that at all i 356 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,480 just let it be and left it open for me to come and fill the gap in later which is what i'm going to 357 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,760 do but not quite yet i got a little more writing to do but uh right now i was thinking about this 358 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:09,840 based on these new revelations i'm having about piss and the fact that her personality or her like 359 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:16,560 main focal point her world view is seen through the lens of friendship uh friendship and maybe unity 360 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,920 i thought oh that's perfect for her being like the super sentai one right um so not according to 361 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:30,480 the dawn brothers but anyway uh i got an idea for what to do to have her address the grow bug 362 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:40,640 circle and i'm going to go ahead and start that dictation now 363 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:50,000 so 364 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,880 hey there cadets i'm his 365 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:05,520 and i'm so glad to be here 366 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,760 i've been watching all of you and i've noticed that while you all get along 367 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,160 i can see a spark of friendship 368 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,160 i can see a few sparks of friendship 369 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:28,000 between some of you that's great 370 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,280 back when i was a cadet 371 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,160 my friend pop and i got into so much trouble 372 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:43,600 what happened was we were on this trek around the camp and pop thought she saw something 373 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,800 she went after it and got lost so i went after her and 374 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,200 i beg your pardon glimmer butted in 375 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,200 but now is not the time his 376 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:07,840 his turned to glimmer and chuckled sorry you're right the part of the story is that 377 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:14,800 we helped each other out of a situation and had we not been there for each other 378 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,680 it wouldn't have ended well for either of us 379 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:29,600 this story is a new one it happened not too long ago and it's about another friend 380 00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:35,840 actually it's about a friend of mine who's been in the camp for a while now 381 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,360 it's a friend actually a few friends that i met 382 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,520 after i had gotten lost too 383 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,720 i was on my way back from a mission where i well actually never mind i'll tell you about that some 384 00:46:52,720 --> 00:47:02,400 other time the point is it was getting late and the sun was already about to come up so i stopped 385 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:17,040 to rest when i wake up something's wrong i can't quite tell what it is it turns out i was in a sour 386 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,160 sorrow spud patch 387 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:33,680 grow bugs have encountered sorrow spuds before and they are not something that can easily be ignored 388 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:42,640 they are nasty parasitic plants that spread themselves out like a spider's web anything 389 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,720 that gets caught in them they can drain life energy from 390 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:52,320 anything that gets caught in them they can drain life energy from and 391 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:00,080 in my case it turns out it was able to do even more 392 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:08,400 i became trapped in a cage a cage that i could have gotten out of the whole time 393 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:15,760 the sorrow spud and i formed some sort of connection that flowed both ways it was able to 394 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:28,080 pull life energy from me while keeping me alive enough to use my powers to help pull in more 395 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,040 victims for it to drain 396 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:41,120 life out of the way it trapped me was it stole all my joy i couldn't feel happiness i felt completely alone 397 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:51,680 like no one would be looking for me no one was out there and no one was looking for me 398 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:59,840 it was a really terrible feeling and for whatever reason that sadness that hunger and that desperation 399 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:08,720 would only feel better when i was doing exactly what the sorrow spud wanted me to 400 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:24,320 why am i standing here today in front of you telling you this story well obviously it's because i got out 401 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,320 how did i get out though this was really weird 402 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:37,600 this girl cat and her cousins ended up trapped in this labyrinth of loneliness 403 00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:48,400 that the sorrow spud and i created together i became trapped in this cage but because of my powers 404 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:59,520 part of me was able to roam around this maze as a strange 405 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:11,280 ghost-like figure it was me and i was it it was my light but it was dim almost a shadow 406 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:22,800 it was always tied to me but i could move around with it or move it around while i stayed stuck in my cage 407 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:41,360 and the first kid who i met that day 408 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:52,400 is now my good friend her name is cat and she reached out to me when no one else did 409 00:50:52,400 --> 00:51:06,960 she was lonely just like me 410 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:28,720 she was lonely just like me but she was really brave too after she and her cousins had gotten out 411 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:41,600 of the labyrinth i was so desperate to get them back to not feel lonely anymore to try to take 412 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:48,480 their happy memories so i could feel happy again that 413 00:51:48,480 --> 00:52:00,080 i summed all of my strength with the encouragement of the sorrow spud 414 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:14,080 and my ghost turned into a monster that attacked the kids 415 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:21,920 they were able to defeat me it the rampaging spooktator but 416 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,920 then the sorrow spud took over and 417 00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:37,920 put all of its force into 418 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:43,840 getting this monster back up on its feet attacking the kids again and it was gonna 419 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,480 and it was so desperate that it attacked them more fiercely 420 00:52:52,480 --> 00:53:06,480 that's when kat came in 421 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,040 Macau 422 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,040 That's when Kat came in 423 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:27,140 She offered me friendship and helped release me from my cage 424 00:53:27,140 --> 00:53:35,300 It turned out 425 00:53:43,140 --> 00:53:50,340 That she was kind to me that when she it turned out that when she was kind to me and offered me friendship the 426 00:53:51,060 --> 00:53:53,060 bars of 427 00:53:53,060 --> 00:53:57,280 Of my cage didn't work anymore. I 428 00:53:58,780 --> 00:54:02,860 Was free I could see my way out and I took it as soon as I could 429 00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:11,580 You would think that would be the end of the spook tater monster outside of the labyrinth, but it wasn't 430 00:54:12,540 --> 00:54:14,740 like I said somehow the 431 00:54:15,580 --> 00:54:17,300 sorrow spud patch 432 00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:18,940 the sorrow spud 433 00:54:18,940 --> 00:54:25,740 Was able to take some of my power and energy and life force for me and it used that to make 434 00:54:27,020 --> 00:54:29,020 the spook tater 435 00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:32,820 Monster even stronger and 436 00:54:35,140 --> 00:54:37,140 More powerful 437 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:42,060 The labyrinth disappeared, but the monster remained and 438 00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:45,460 Kat and I could see that 439 00:54:45,460 --> 00:54:51,300 The grow bugs and her cousins were in trouble 440 00:54:58,060 --> 00:55:01,180 So we rushed over to them as quickly as we could and I had this crazy idea 441 00:55:03,140 --> 00:55:08,300 The three of them had been fighting the spook tater monster 442 00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:13,540 On their own as a team 443 00:55:15,140 --> 00:55:22,360 Each one would do something different because that's all they could do, but it was a big monster 444 00:55:24,860 --> 00:55:32,200 And we were little grow bugs, but we don't always have to be little what if we could combine our power 445 00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:35,500 and 446 00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:44,660 become something bigger and stronger that could defeat 447 00:55:46,660 --> 00:55:48,860 That could match the spook tater and 448 00:55:50,620 --> 00:55:57,140 Defeat it and hopefully destroy the whole sorrow spud once and for all 449 00:55:57,140 --> 00:56:03,220 The kids weren't so sure but the other grow bugs 450 00:56:08,260 --> 00:56:10,260 Knew that we could do it 451 00:56:13,140 --> 00:56:15,140 So we merged into 452 00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:19,540 Something like the image of a warrior 453 00:56:19,540 --> 00:56:25,860 That cat and the other kids had seen before and together 454 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:31,940 We defeated the spook tater and destroyed 455 00:56:35,540 --> 00:56:37,540 The sour 456 00:56:39,380 --> 00:56:41,380 Sorrow spud patch 457 00:56:41,380 --> 00:56:43,380 Sorrow spud patch 458 00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:51,620 Comment it's just supposed to be sorrow spud 459 00:56:52,980 --> 00:56:54,100 not 460 00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:58,740 Sour spud but probably because of sour patch kids sour 461 00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:01,980 somehow keeps getting in there and 462 00:57:02,780 --> 00:57:04,780 note 463 00:57:04,780 --> 00:57:11,860 So I'd say it's time to stop dictation and start to comment I 464 00:57:14,420 --> 00:57:16,180 Just came back from being interrupted 465 00:57:16,180 --> 00:57:22,260 I don't know what happened, but I will wrap this up by telling you the goal was to write chapter 7 of grow bug tales 466 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:25,300 what ended up happening was I wrote I 467 00:57:27,020 --> 00:57:30,300 Rewrote a little bit of 468 00:57:30,300 --> 00:57:37,580 Cat in the grow bug which corresponds to this because his is the grow bug in cat in the grow bug and then she's the 469 00:57:38,020 --> 00:57:40,500 focal point or the one telling the story in 470 00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:47,300 Chapter 7 of grow big tails. However, I went back and rewrote part of that story and 471 00:57:48,260 --> 00:57:50,780 I think I improved it by doing that and 472 00:57:51,620 --> 00:57:59,300 I also came up with a whole new titling structure for the chapter book as well as the 473 00:57:59,300 --> 00:58:04,260 picture books and if I want to make more picture books in the future, I now have a format to follow and 474 00:58:05,580 --> 00:58:10,500 It will make sense. It'll be distinct. It'll maintain the consistent branding and 475 00:58:11,300 --> 00:58:16,820 If I do a bigger grow bug tales book or other grow bug tales chapter books like this first one 476 00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:22,460 I'll be able to come up with titles for all of them or subtitles for all of them that will unite them and it'll be obvious 477 00:58:22,900 --> 00:58:28,100 Okay, this is a bigger chapter book. It's a prose if there's no, you know pictures with except 478 00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:32,660 You know cover image maybe in chapter headings perhaps and these other books are obvious 479 00:58:32,660 --> 00:58:34,540 So it won't be like super blatant 480 00:58:34,540 --> 00:58:39,780 But once you there is an easily detectable pattern and it makes it easily 481 00:58:40,540 --> 00:58:45,900 Understandable that all of them are in a series together despite the fact that summer picture books and some are 482 00:58:47,140 --> 00:58:54,220 Chapter books or novellas or whatever they're gonna end up being and I don't currently plan on writing an additional grow bug tales 483 00:58:54,220 --> 00:58:59,820 Chapter book, but if I were going to I would know how to and I could go ahead and write it about anything 484 00:59:00,100 --> 00:59:02,100 Which I think is interesting 485 00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:07,980 And I like that flexibility it makes me feel free and it makes me feel like with that bit of planning that I did 486 00:59:08,180 --> 00:59:11,020 I'll be able to like I said have the freedom to 487 00:59:11,740 --> 00:59:14,940 Maneuver however, I want to grow going forward with the grow bug books 488 00:59:14,940 --> 00:59:20,180 But also it's given me a really strong central idea of how to brand 489 00:59:20,180 --> 00:59:26,380 Books for series going forward and that really makes me pleased because I have the whole huge superhero 490 00:59:27,660 --> 00:59:34,740 Book idea universe holy heroes, which I've mentioned before and I now have this new 491 00:59:35,540 --> 00:59:37,060 separate 492 00:59:37,060 --> 00:59:38,620 universe 493 00:59:38,620 --> 00:59:41,020 Idea that I want to do that. I'll talk about later 494 00:59:41,180 --> 00:59:45,140 But so yeah, the plane was to write chapter 7 of grow bug tales 495 00:59:45,140 --> 00:59:50,140 I didn't I instead wrote I rewrote and renamed rebranded grow bug tales 496 00:59:52,220 --> 00:59:57,020 Cat and the key of kindness that is now book 4 in the grow book picture book series 497 00:59:57,820 --> 01:00:03,220 So you see there with the title it focuses on the kid not the grow bug grow bug is in the title 498 01:00:04,220 --> 01:00:10,360 Used to be cat the grow bug now grow bug tales is the main title under that it identifies that it's about cat 499 01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:15,420 And then there's something about this key of kindness. So I don't know if all of them have an emotion. Oh 500 01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:20,940 They're all either an emotional title or an action title related to the kid and it's possessive 501 01:00:20,940 --> 01:00:24,540 so cats cute kindness zeb such-and-such Rex's whatever and 502 01:00:25,580 --> 01:00:30,220 That's how they'll be distinguished and you can say oh, it's the Rex book the cat book the whatever book and 503 01:00:30,860 --> 01:00:33,260 That all makes sense. So I also 504 01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:40,220 Did make good solid notes for going back into chapter 7 and now with the rewrites that I've done 505 01:00:40,220 --> 01:00:42,540 in cat and the key of kindness I 506 01:00:43,660 --> 01:00:46,980 now have a much better understanding of the personality of 507 01:00:47,820 --> 01:00:53,380 His and I actually did dictate a little bit of that which is in this recording. So I was 508 01:00:54,180 --> 01:00:59,340 momentarily confused about the reality of the situation and I think I'm gonna have 509 01:00:59,900 --> 01:01:05,700 Once the transcript of this episode is done. I think for my own benefit for my own notes. I will have 510 01:01:06,300 --> 01:01:08,300 chat GDP 511 01:01:08,300 --> 01:01:13,780 Read the transcript and give me the highlights and tell me like what did I accomplish by the end of this? 512 01:01:14,940 --> 01:01:16,940 episode of 513 01:01:17,460 --> 01:01:23,740 Story over everything which is gonna be again story over everything episode 22 and I think I like this format 514 01:01:23,740 --> 01:01:28,660 It's an hour long. I did not expect it to go this long and we'll see how long the future 515 01:01:29,220 --> 01:01:35,340 Writing focus writing in public focused episodes are of story over everything, but I'm happy that I'm writing 516 01:01:35,340 --> 01:01:38,420 I feel good writing and I think making 517 01:01:39,980 --> 01:01:44,100 A priority is really push it in my mind. It's really sparked my imagination a lot of ways 518 01:01:44,100 --> 01:01:49,340 I honestly was feeling even yesterday or the day before I was feeling very much stuck and how I didn't know how I was gonna 519 01:01:49,340 --> 01:01:55,020 Proceed and I kept thinking about it and analyzing it and trying to come up with you know, figuring well, what's my formula? 520 01:01:55,020 --> 01:01:57,100 What's my layout? I don't really have a layout. It's just like or a 521 01:01:57,780 --> 01:02:00,860 Outline I just have these broad strokes, but they're basically enough 522 01:02:00,860 --> 01:02:06,700 And I'm not gonna say what the outline is right now, but it's a structure that makes sense for the story 523 01:02:06,700 --> 01:02:09,980 and I even tried to have chat DTP determine a 524 01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:15,860 Outline for me and it ended up coming up with the exact same outline that I had formed based on all the information 525 01:02:15,860 --> 01:02:18,180 I'd given it which I guess kind of makes sense, but 526 01:02:19,260 --> 01:02:21,940 It was really interesting. It was really interesting to use that tool and 527 01:02:22,300 --> 01:02:27,320 I'm figuring out different ways to use it and I'm getting smarter at using it and I'm it's interesting 528 01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:32,080 It's I'm a little less satisfied so far because it hasn't given me like any exact content 529 01:02:32,460 --> 01:02:37,660 Like it's giving me blurbs, but I rewrote or I wrote my own blurbs and I've maybe stole a line or two from 530 01:02:38,260 --> 01:02:42,360 Some of the AI blurbs that I got from it and incorporated them into mine 531 01:02:42,500 --> 01:02:48,460 But I'm really overall gonna probably use mine and not really mess with them too much, but it's cool 532 01:02:48,460 --> 01:02:52,840 I've been asking it to rate my blurbs or rate my writing even I even asked it to rate 533 01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:58,640 Cat in the key of kindness and I was less than thrilled with the score, but I think maybe it lacks context 534 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,760 I might need to talk to other Tokusatsu fans 535 01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,320 To see how they like it, but I did reread it today 536 01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:09,240 I was reading to my wife and there were a couple things in it that I didn't like and I thought well 537 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,380 Maybe I'll revise those and maybe it's right that it could be written better than it is now 538 01:03:13,380 --> 01:03:18,340 So I should definitely check that out. But anyway, that's the end of my journey for now this 539 01:03:18,340 --> 01:03:24,460 work on chapter 7 book 4 of the grow bug series or grow bug tales and 540 01:03:25,260 --> 01:03:30,540 That's all the progress I've made. Like I said, if you want to look at the show notes the extra show notes on the website 541 01:03:30,540 --> 01:03:31,620 I'll have a 542 01:03:31,620 --> 01:03:38,900 condensed or summarized version of everything that came out of this episode and it'll be done for me by chat GTP and I'll run through and 543 01:03:38,900 --> 01:03:44,580 I'll just like do some proofreading correct spelling and things and things like that. So anyway, that's it 544 01:03:44,580 --> 01:03:50,660 That's this is me on my latest step in my author journey. I'm using these AI tools and I'm 545 01:03:51,260 --> 01:03:58,860 Figuring out how to cultivate a discipline any consistency so that I am writing more and more and more and becoming a better author 546 01:03:59,380 --> 01:04:05,060 Because I want to get this stuff done as soon as possible. Anyway, until next time folks take care. This is MJ signing out. I 547 01:04:05,860 --> 01:04:13,260 Hope you enjoyed that go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions comments or other feedback you might have 548 01:04:13,260 --> 01:04:17,420 There you can find all of my analysis art and fiction. I 549 01:04:18,100 --> 01:04:22,380 Cover books tokusatsu comic books anime and more 550 01:04:22,380 --> 01:04:43,140 Look around you're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well. This has been a story over everything production