robert e g black

the first syllable : a podcast about writing

Tv EN ↓ 55 episodes

a podcast about writing a screenplay. exploring the ideas as they come, detailing the process and every little thing that connects to it.support the show at https://www.patreon.com/lemmingdrops

Author

robert e g black

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Podcast website

www.lemmingdrops.com

Latest episode

Aug 1, 2025

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Episodes

duos insequens lepores neutrum capit 29.03.2024

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

i love the implication that characters have things going on 22.03.2024

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

no one listens to this show 15.03.2024

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.

it keeps the demons at bay 08.03.2024

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.

my special interest that i never had 01.03.2024

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

before the faller man 23.02.2024

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.

as soon as i made that decision 16.02.2024

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?

i like the idea that i was writing regularly again 09.02.2024

a brief update about potential writing projects to come.

i'm looking forward to the next thing 02.02.2024

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.

my brain is constantly harping 06.10.2023

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

i don't even remember now 09.06.2023

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

my main character is still a cypher 18.11.2022

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

the story of the last syllable notes file number eight 11.11.2022

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

what you want to spend your time doing 04.11.2022

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

that's what makes me happy 21.10.2022

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

take the good, and keep it. leave the bad behind. 07.10.2022

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

though some of the details will change along the way 30.09.2022

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

the voiceover is aware it's talking to an audience 23.09.2022

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

tv tropes, pay attention; you can add these. 16.09.2022

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

transpersonal symbolism from the collective unconscious 09.09.2022

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

it's a tragedy pretending it's an absurdist comedy 02.09.2022

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

more of a worldbuilder than a storyteller 26.08.2022

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

i should let you know who i am 19.08.2022

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

where each piece of the mix-and-match comes from 12.08.2022

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

an existential kinda deal 05.08.2022

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

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