Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors

[TheOnlySMAWJ]

writers are way more important than editors could ever be. If it wasn't for writers what would editors edit?

[AtreideSardaukar]

"Stormtroopers" in Star Wars is one word. Nazi "Storm Troopers" are two words.

[bobzadm46]

Maybe he is using "ATM machine" in a "correct" context, ie: A machine with an ATM as part of it. So an automated teller machine in a machine. An ATM MACHINE!...maybe.

[mthsbandrocks]

Geesh John, do you even watch your brother's videos? ATM machine?

[OnTheTravels]

it's one word. Google it.

[funkid220]

In the starwars way it's one word.

[Zerinan]

I spy a Wacom tablet in the background there!

[taggrey]

Using this video in my research paper about book editors.

[Swordinferno]

Storm Troopers was a term used to describe the Hitlerjugend before WWII. 2 words.

[axelgregory]

according to wikipedia (yes i know its not the most reliable) the demonym for the people of Indianapolis is Indianapolitan.

[taggrey]

So we know who won the argument about if stormtroopers is one word.

[CustardStig]

Less than 30cm away from the laptop I am watching this video, is my copy of TFiOS. I feel like a time traveller......

Meanwhile, in "dates in John Green's books" news, I noticed in Paper Towns that there was meantion of "May 5th". This should be corrected to "Hanko De Mayo" as soon as possible.

[Honorasaur]

In paper towns, margo and q go out and buy the vaseline etc on my birthday. I was so happy :')

[thenameofsanity]

your kitchen drawer is open.

[coryldork]

This was so helpful, John. Thank you for telling me more about the editorial process.

[NargleSparkles]

THE TOP COMMENTS ARE THE SAME! Both are complaints!

Come on, commenters.

[Ima929]

John could make a history of the machinations of the US postal service interesting, though.

[Otherwisedull]

I think I know why they changed the days! :)

[AnoukvdS]

Since they changed the video days, John can ALWAYS say "Hank, I'll see you on Friday!" :D

[ThisIsMalice]

'Calenderically specific dementia'. I love it when you say stuff like that.

[Caprinae]

Why is the code for this dRVAAAAAAAAAAA?!

Nerd fighters, we have an acronym to solve!.

[SomeoneBeginingWithI]

after watching this, I think I need to watch all of the videos from when he was writing TFiOS. Luckily that period is most of the volgbrothers that I have not yet watched. I love being a new nerdfighter.

see you in your pants!

[agentjunieb]

A George Lucas storytrooper is worth 400 dollars! For an action figure. -_-

[MegaCalvinHobbes]

John said "ATM machine." Oh the irony.

[sexyemofruit]

I watched this on a Friday.

[kalezz100]

I love reading the editorial AFTER reading The Fault in Our Stars

[TheGreatSteve]

Looks like a centurion tank chassis.

[ImogensImagination18]

It's odd. John is holding TFiOS. At this point he has no idea the amazing reception the papers in his hands got from readers worldwide. It's fun to watch :)

[chunkypunkymunky]

0:58 looks like he has slight peanut butter forehead



[AlyZimmer]

"Stormtroopers" is on page 34. It's one word. :)

[lyates]

i can't tell if i feel so intimately connected to this book because i have watched beautifully informative and thoughtful videos like this for the past 6 months, but every minute i am reading, i am playing this video, along with every other video of john discussing the emotional process of producing such a tremendous work of art in the back of my mind. and the weight of my gratitude cannot be measured. i feel so lucky to have this wonderful, treasured experience.

[ElwingStarSpray]

Not gonna lie, I giggled when I got to the part in TFIOS that involved the word "Stormtroopers."

[bored5523]

Don't worry John now you only have to remember one day

[kristinemarcotte]

Storm Troopers.

Also: Why is that statue taking a sun bath?!

[MiniMangaFan]

When he put the card in the ATM I really wanted it to play the intro to The Phantom Of The Opera.

[AuntSanta]

The closed captions on this video have spoken: it's "stormtroopers."

[OneSongGlory8]

"Pass the pizza."

Yes.

[CakeBeneathTheIcing]

We had an author speak at our school and I remember when she talked about her editor. She said something like, "they don't tell you to use the word 'this' instead of 'that', they tell you things like 'you should really rethink the relationship between the mother and daughter'."

[StarWarsFreak516]

Stormtrooper is one word, no matter what spellcheck says. Keep fighting, John!!

[antiquecans69]

Indianapolachian.

[antiquecans69]

John look how skinny you got!

[kevinghislain]

storm troopers.

two words

[LMNOP1214]

"It's like I have calendrically-specific dementia." Favorite quote ever. I literally said it with you at the end there :D

[tacoismykitty]

ATM machine, really john, i thought hank covered this

[ayyKatx]

YOU SAID "ATM MACHINE"! It's not an automated teller machine machine!

Come on, John.

[unholychunk]

@ayyKatx huh? 

[ayyKatx]

@unholychunk He said "ATM Machine". the "M" in ATM stands for "Machine".

That being said, he called it an automated teller machine machine.

Hank has covered this.

Come on.

[ssbrwl]

Aha! I just watched John reading chapter 2 of TFiOS and it all makes sense.

[JobiWan144]

Strormtroopers is definitely one word. End of story.

[maskmefromreality]

is it weird that i want that how-to guide?

[grouch314]

Everyday should be friday. I have lots of maths and science on Fridays

[unscrewstheotherway]

Your forehead is extremely tan.

[isHannahish]

its one word =]

[WorldInLithuania]

PASS THE PIZZA! :D

[joysarenottravesties]

I may have answered the annoying "Where are you from?" when I started college a few months ago with "I'm Indianapoliscious."

[floopowder7]

'Pass the pizza'

[applejax26]

Youtube captioning agrees with John.



[MrDude6670]

Spoiler alert: the word "stormtrooper" is in it

[razzo3456]

...actual ATM machine??? *eye twich*

[ProjectRedfoot]

@razzo3456 ATM or AT Machine right? is that the reason for the twitch? lol

[ryan21212]

@razzo3456 Agreed, but eye twich... *eyelid twitch*

[kalipassion04]

Thumbs up for editors like myself. Thanks John for giving us some credit. =) DFTBA

[talesofaminorniner]

Wow, I will now seriously consider becoming an editor.<3

[VictoriaM5858]

@talesofaminorniner I plan on being an editor but this video didn't inspire me so much as make me feel extremely inadequate. Haha.

[rainbowimagimachine]

The disembodied parrot head in the background is very distracting. I keep wondering whether or not it's supposed to be a metaphor.

[staygold1323]

It's called being a HOOSIER, John.. we're HOOSIERS. Indianapolisian?! Oy vey!

[rainabraina]

Hey, guess what day it is?

[B4K4xNi]

You said "ATM machine".

:|

[KelOfMindelan]

@buttonslapper actually it was Hank who made that particular video

[bkksugarsyrup]

nomatter how bad jame is he save my life form the suicide ...and i feel thank you of him...i have happy ;life with and you green

[rawrrar3]

iv been having vlogbrothers withdrawals cause my computer has been too slow to watch your videos so iv missed about a month and a half and im trying to catch up. iv missed so much about your new book DX i looove your books!!!

[andtheducksaysmoo]

You could call them AT Machines, but then people might think the Empire is attacking.

[msPanicMoon]

@andtheducksaysmoo Or, just imagine saying, "I'm going to be at the AT machine." "located at AT machine 4" or anything like that...

[navymexican]

I LOL'd I actually LOL'd.

[XxSasukesfangirlxX]

I was looking at the background and I noticed that we have same tablet. Is it Sarah's?

[ShadowNightMastah]

@BYUchick875 Lol. You're right. Because John said it, and because you say so. lol

[ShadowNightMastah]

Is indianapolishious even a word? Just wondering?

[BYUchick875]

@ShadowNightMastah It is now :D

[DinoTubz9638]

After beginning my novel I realize that I too may have Calendricly Specific Dementia.

[Tahonamaya]

I live in the same town as George Lucas, do you want me to ask him?

[kaikiyukionna27]

@Tahonamaya I think I speak for everyone when I say YES. O_O

[FootofaFerret]

Your next book should take place in an alternate universe in which everyday is in fact Friday. Dftba :D

[a0coocoobrain0o0o0o]

@FootofaFerret

omg that gave me an idea... that i may never use

[ReKrisB]

*Obligatory comment here*

DFTBA!~

[Althesuperfish]

You're an Indianapolitan!

"Indianapolitan, which appeared to be rare enough that by 1996 Marc Allen of the Indianapolis Daily News could not recall ever seeing it in print. Allen said that the locals are commonly identified as Hossiers" -Labels for Locals by Paul Dickson :)

[NelliumTheFisherman]

JOHN. PRESSING QUESTION. I was lucky enough to also travel to Venice in late June, and I was in the main Biennale pavillion in the room with all the red, white, and black clay, and someone had written 'DFTBA' in red clay on the wall. Was it you??

[mizzpicklezz]

nice..hmmm maybe i should be an editor

[MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing]

a little unimpressed by the aleatoric atm im afraid. n wanna go for a run on a tank now :P

[zobawbaw]

The correct term is Hoosier, but Indianapolsian works just fine!

[mimatheoriginal]

Indianapoliscious!

[TheDragonforce444]

I am sure Stormtrooper is one word.

[mokshalovely]

one of the reasons I love John Green? He comes up with conditions like Calendarically Specific Dementia."

[BeatrixNemesis]

So you say 'good morning' to Hank more than you say 'I love you' to your wife?

[bluidemenace1]

Spoiler alert: You name the book "The Fault in Our Stars."

[SoBeIt1454]

Stormtrooper. One word and I know that because my iPod did not autocorrect it to something totally different.

[ilikeaeroplanejelly1]

i am interested to know if you realize the tautology that you used in this video, it may seem anal of me but i CAN"T STAND TAUTOLOGY.... THE M in Machine stands for Machine.... so saying ATM machine is redundant.

[TriexDJ]

It's written in one word on the wiki. 'Stormtrooper' or 'Shock Troops' from the German Army in WW1. So you're right. Not her, lol.

[GoodSamaritanSam]

What's with all the videos being reposted?

[MissStarkid222]

Automatic Teller Machine Machine?

[Lgirl614]

@MissStarkid222 In the video, John called the atm pipe organ an "atm machine". ATM stands for Automatic Teller Machine, as in a machine that makes bank tellers unnecessary. An ATM machine sounds like a machine that is made to dispense atm's, rather than replace bank tellers.

[lucydawn42]

After listening to the first chapter of TFiOS and becoming ridiculously attached to the characters already, it makes me really happy Augustus calls Hazel and they go to lunch. Even if it is calendarically demented.

[MaddieMusic42]

You just ooze awesome

[Dramaismyife]

@DrWormwaffle THIS.

[adamwisdish95]

You should go to tgi Fridays. Every day is Friday there!

[lankyjuggler]

So I have watched this video several times now, I like it a lot, and every time I spend about 2 minutes trying to understand what you say you have, and google it.

My search history includes: "collindrically specific dementia" "cylindrically specific dementia" and "cylindrically symmetric dementia" (that's not even close!). Then I finally had some mispelling from which google dug up lots of john green fansites. AND ITS NOT EVEN A REAL DIESEASE. John green! You and your literary prowess...

[pikachupirate]

You may have dementia... or you may be spending too much time listening to Rebecca Black.

[leighannmichi]

Hey john guess what tomorrow is? actually friday!!! lol we love ur calindrically specific dementia :)

[xXThesticlerXx]

The editor for twilight must be horrible.

And the editor for the script of the movie.

COINCIDENCE? NOH. BAD WRITING.

[getlikelexxy]

@xXThesticlerXx Why does everyone hate Twilight so much? Why do people bring Twilight up in videos that have nothing to do with Twilight?

These questions haunt me...

[xXThesticlerXx]

@getlikelexxy ITs just example

[HannahIsUnoriginal]

@getlikelexxy Because although people's opinions are subjective, Twilight is widely regarded as a pile of crap that could have been written by a 13 year old girl, and combined with the fact Stephenie Meyer earned like a bajillion dollars from it, this angers people. And everyone brings it up all the time probably because it's easy to get a laugh out of taking the piss out of it.

[KoolThing14]

Hanks book is to Hank as Explosion Wednesday is to WheezyWaiter.

[Ash1316182123]

Every day needs to be Friday.

[odisdunkle]

stormtrooper, FTW

Book title-- What constitutes Martyrdom? -- I'd read it, if it was under John's name.

[zippy3421]

Ok this has nothing to do with the video, but I just discovered the interactive transcript button and it is blowing my mind! Now it'll be so much easier to nerdily quote vlogbrothers videos!!!!!

[samiesset115]

So... I'm not sure if this is the book is the one that needs a title, and I have no idea if this even remotely WORKS or not. HOWEVER! Why not a title like "Everyday is Friday" of "Why can't everyday be Friday" type dealeo.

[theawesomeone1029]

Your fictional universe is escaping! Into your vloooooggggssss...

[19sasukelover]

One word stormtrooper is.

[franklymydearx]

calendrically specific dementia is going to be my excuse whenever I forget the day from now on...

[jazzingirl]

storm trooper is two words

[NerdyWitch94]

Someday, I'll be both an editor and an author. I'll be very important :)

[RebeccaLovesBooks]

@vlogbrothers You're right! I had to look it up. I must say that "four horsemen of sasquatchery" sounded to strange to be true.

[REMsleeper428]

OMFG. JOHN GREEN MET MICHAEL STIPE?! MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE.

[markeisenbraun]

it's not just your fictional universe, it's reality too

[TeaWithScones]

I am really not enjoying The Great Gatsby... D:

[SGR750]

(WHAT?!) Specific dementia?

I want to know what that word means, can anyone tell me?

[Laurydoodle]

@SGR750 he doesn't hear/is unaware of specific things. like when you tell your mom things and then she later has no idea about it.

[Tjita1]

@SGR750 Dementia is a disease that makes you forget stuff. Calendrically specific dementia would in this case suggest forgetting what day it is and nothing else.

[Wasomacosalo]

@SGR750 I noticed you already got told but I wanted to make what the other two said more correct, it's actually deterioration (like dying, falling to pieces etc.) of the brain effecting abilities related to memory and usually occurs due to old age.

[claydude800]

My brain hurts... :(

[Brendan14618]

The original German term Sturm-Trupp was hyphenated, at least according to the _Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations_ produced in 1917 by the US Army War College and the British War Office. Since then, the term is usually treated as a single word.

[keepbabbling]

I am so behind on vlogbrothers video but THANK YOU for this tribute to book editors. While I don't have authors who think every day is Friday I do have authors whose days are absurdly long -- e.g., we had lunch, and then we had dinner as the sun set, and then we took a walk through town, and then we stopped for lunch at noon. That can be fun to straighten out... :)

[fecklessman]

can't you just say you're an indy-an?

[MyBurningCity]

YETI REVEALED?

Indianapolis Museum of Art:

Cynthia Rallis, Chief Development Officer

Ronda Kasl, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800

Ellen Lee, Wood-Pulliam Distinguished Senior Curator

Lisa Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair, Department of Contemporary Art

DUN DUN DUHHH

[kittismkittism]

your forehead is INSANELY tanned.

[LazoProductions]

I really want to read the un-edited version of Looking for Alaska only to see how much it changed, since you always talk about it. I'm not going to beg, because it's my second favorite book by you [first being Will Grayson Will Grayson] but hey it would be interesting to see.

[punkee666]

someone wrote Indianapolis on a toilet paper holder in a ladies washroom at my school. I'm really not sure why.

[pdawg511]

hoosiers man. we're called hoosiers.

[etandellie]

lol [this is all my mum would let me put in this comment]

[SwimFellow]

But. Stormtrooper is one word..

[eunicepark1]

Hey Nerdfighteria!!!

I just graduated COLLEGE!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!

And for my last hurrah, I am studying abroad for the next two months in Buenos Aires!! >< I feel like I will be getting some major homesickness while abroad and will be documenting said homesickness on youtube. Would make me feel a WHOLE lot better knowing I had a familiar community HERE whenever I get to missing for home! =) So check out my channel if you're interested!!!! Gracias!

[jellodefrancais]

I love the brief look of anxiety and panic in your eyes right after you say "her comments on the pages and everything."

[adiclm29]

"It's like I have calindrically specific dementia." If I had a nickel for every time I said THAT phrase...

[Kodakowl]

LOL, ATM machine, redundancy... Automated Teller Machine machine...

[striperdude]

Made it to the end of the doobleedoo, but on an iPhone...

no automatic linking...

damn u Apple...

No way I'm gonna try to type all that in... *shrug*

[shelbyelaine120]

"no matter how happy it would make Rebecca Black, I agree with you that not every day should be Friday."

[DezaB0nanza]

I accidentally paused the video at 0:06 and John is looking very seductively at me with the words "PASS THE PIZZA" next to his face.

[idrils]

Thank God it's the Last Friday of the Week !

[YaYaSmileyFace]

Did your book-movie come out!?!?!? if so, what the pizza is it called?

[Bays64]

A- Stormtrooper

B- I like when everyday is Friday.  Sounds like a good week.

C-Firefox agrees with Julie. However, it's one word

[emotionalparadox]

Firefox yelled at me when I tried to type storm trooper as one word : P

Though I believe it's one word when you're referring to actual militia and two when you're talking about Star Wars clones.

[NotForEating]

gutted that hide book never came out...

[AFIrock13]

*is happy to say he is Indianapolicious*

[yoyothriller]

An actual Automated Teller Machine machine? Wow. Those machine machines are rare.

[Nerdfighterian]

A person from Indiana is called a Hoosier. Thus ( I cant believe I'm saying this) a person from Indianapolis is called a "Hoosiernapolisian". (Word spell check says "Did you mean Indianapolis?".

[DougMezz]

you're a retard...how do you have so many youtube views?

[yourmomlovesefron]

storm-trooper. stormtrooper. storm trooper. I think it's either one word or hyphenated. But it's definitely not two words.

[jdepluva10]

That one sentence in Julie's email made me want to be an editor.

[musiclova520]

Being Indianapolitious, I enjoy that term much more than Hoosier, even if Hoosier has really interesting origin stories : )

[DTDdeathmas]

I think he should just spell Stormtroops/ Storm Troops both ways throughout the book then he will be right at least half the time/

[RyuTakeshi]

John. Your description of what an Editor does may have just helped decide what I want to do with my life.

I don't know. But right now I feel amazing. And like I can do this.

[YouGottaBeJokingz]

Are you even trying? Are you really even trying? No, no I'm not! That's your job!

[ToxicityGraphics]

ATM MACHINE. DID YOU JUST SAY AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE? HMMMMMM? I AM DISSAPOINT.

[GeoMiP]

STORMTROOPERS FTW!

[7CracksInTime]

It's one word, John. Google doesn't lie.