the first syllable : a podcast about writing

titles and changing them; stealing old idea for new stories; idioms, puns, proverbs, and adages; planning future stories; and getting more of DEATH DEATH DEATH completed... Update: I finished DEATH DEATH DEATH between this recording and this episode coming out, but you'll hear about that next week. #Highlander, #PaulAtreides, #SwordintheStone

DEATH DEATH DEATH progress, the shallows problem, behind enemy lines, rewriting the escalor, worldbuilding, choose two rabbits, the last syllable of recorded time, and nicknames. "Tango" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8O8lYDzIU

death death death update and suprising myself, a dream i once had and the future audience of this show, michael myers minute and obsessing about filming locations and being a good podcast guest.

groundhog day project blog day 578... musicals, escapism, not universalizing your writing, method participation , home alone, fear, and nicole kidman totally plagiarized this blog entry.

shifting titles, plans for new stories and remixing old ones, plus creole and language, and finding focus when the world is a mess.

sorting out my notes and characters and deciding the order of deaths for death death death. getting ready to really outline this thing and get writing.

I talk about Lee, the anthropomorphic rabbit detective from a future story, Choose Two Rabbits, because I'm not yet working on Death, Death, Death... Also, should it be Death Death Death, no commas?

a brief update about potential writing projects to come.

there have been a few episodes i've recorded but not shared. so, here's an update on how the novel i've been writing is going, plus plans for the future.

a little update on projects on hiatus, current projects, upcoming projects, and living inside my brain.

unfinished episodes, under the snow, song of fellfaraway, future plans, cock & bull movie talk, and the groundhog day project: minute by minute.

recent loops, rhapsody on a theme of paganini, and character backstory.

umbrella academy, learning the piano, royal promises, the sator square, last day of june, meet cute.

#moviesbyminutes podcasting, the groundhog day project, lawrence/julie & julia, julie powell, legacies, and what matters.

creative blocks, autistic burnout, musicals, halloween ends, and circling back to creative projects.

x-files and highlander scripts i wrote as a teen, and adapting old ideas and characters into new stories.

the opening line, connor's father, getting past the artifice of voiceover, and justifying the use of inside information (or not)

time loop and voiceover hand in hand, deliberate artifice, and what is going on with connor's parents?

#philconnoring, #timeloopstupid, #timelooproofie, and my notes from #TheMapOfTinyPerfectThings

more time loops i've watched recently, plus why the story starts in the middle, and what's the point?

having too many ideas, and exploring some old 3x5 card story ideas of mine that never got written

flashback to childhood and since, looking at how i build stories and worlds, and the process of piecing together a new reality before the story of it can be written

telling you a bit about myself, and laying out the backbone of the plot as i see it currently

figuring out the plot, sorting pages and pages of notes and references, and naming the main characters.

what is the point of a time loop story? plus, how to insert political messaging.