 Hello everybody he here a welcome back to another writing live stream with my co-host Chad Lutsky Sorry, I'm freezing this morning y'all anyways We are currently correct collaborate corroborating. Yeah collaborating on a book called planet caravan. We are quite a ways into it I don't even know how far I think we're over 50k something like that But uh anyways, so the point of this is for you guys to just chill out If you have any questions about the collaborative pop process you can ask them Also, it's just for people who want to work alongside somebody if you want to get your own art done your own writing your own Whatever done, that's what we're here for And some people just hang out and listen to us type So whatever whatever you want to do you do you anyway? so first order of business today is just Reading over something that I wrote the chat has already gone over And once I get done with that, I'm gonna jump back into it. I Can't remember if this chapter if I finished this chapter or not. I'm pretty sure I did I believe I said that off Well before we went live that that I had finished it, but anyways, I'm gonna read what Chad did do it And then we're gonna jump in and get started on the rest of this Chad is also lengthened the outline So we have a game plan. We know what to do all that good stuff And we are not at the 50,000 mark We were we were 51 52 you cut a bunch of stuff out from yeah And then of course every time I go and revise you cut more like it's cut out So yeah, we're we're back at the 48,600 mark. No problem Just words they'll get replaced typo need to put probably a Some kind of paragraph about them checking out or something. Okay That's the first thing I sold that I saw when I when I opened it up I scrolled down to the yellow and I was like, I think he meant this but I'm gonna let him fix it sweet. Okay. All right Sounds good All right. Good morning, everybody. Sorry Good morning Viking. Good morning. Hey Lee. Amy and I are making Christmas gifts at the moment. How are y'all? I'm doing I'm I'm tired. I'm exhausted like I was telling Chad We I had some errands to run This week trying to get Dan ready for work We lost their social security card went down to the social security office set up an appointment and everything got down there They said we don't have Everything that they need they won't take certain things like the Medicaid card and whatnot verse certificates fine, but we needed another proof of their Existence, I guess or who they are who they say they are oddly enough It was as simple they told us just go down the emergency room be seen Which doesn't make any sense to me because but they they consider it a medical record. So anyways so We didn't want to go during the day for many reasons, you know, it's it's busy That kind of anyways, so we went we went last night. I I fell asleep. I took my gummy right I Took my gummy before the movie and I took another one after because I was taking the low-dose ones But I ended up passing out about 10 Woke up at 1 45 in the morning took Dan the emergency room sat there They got what they needed. They also have anxiety issues and because they don't have A picture ID, which is why we're going through all this to get them, you know, the picture ID for the job We haven't been able to get them in to see anybody a specialist anything so they could get something for their anxiety and The doctor not only gave them something right there on the spot. So we killed two birds with one stone We got the medical record and we got the anxiety medicine But gave them at a van and sent them home with 40 pills of something else I haven't looked at the prescription yet But for PRN or as needed panic attacks and anxiety and whatnot. So We did all that we got back home around 4 30 I was back in bed by five slept for another two hours and then got up and had other stuff to do So I'm exhausted this morning, but I'm gonna take another nap in between streams today And then tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment and we have to go back to social security after that Get the picture ID is going to be a busy two days, but at least 31 days of Halloween is done I don't have to worry about that anymore Now all I got to worry about is getting Dan back and forth to work and my streaming schedules and everything But once they get their schedule, I'll be fine. I'll be able to work around that But yeah, that was a whole bunch of that was a whole bunch of information. But yeah, that's that's how I'm doing I'm exhausted, but I'm here. I'm ready to get to work. I know I'm not sure which I'm gonna go down here And you're gonna do the magic moment and Or yeah, that's what I'm writing today. All right Are you doing the montage or do you want? No, I think you're doing that because I'm doing that. Okay Okay, so I'm doing the confrontation scene I think it's not carnival doing shame of being more paranoid. Do you want to use someone we've already? We've already established I can't think of anyone I want to lose though, or maybe maybe one of Wondering if maybe one of buzzards boys Give the reader the expectation that maybe Shane will get pulled off the bumper cars to go help because now K is I don't know. I don't know what about Jay and Henry, are they a couple? I I'd I'd never thought any farther than just you know But we could definitely do one of them that could that could hit not hard But that could be another one like damn it. We lost carline now. We got to lose this one The mingo could just be in a pissy ass mood Or something. I don't know it's like he went so long without losing anybody and now he's got to get rid of two people Tell me he's pissed off me All right, so Hang on here. We got okay, so where is this? Where is this section with? the The confrontation about the drugs and all that is that up above I'll let another note too that I forgot to mention. We've got the This magic moment that I'm doing right now where Shane Hasn't done the bumper cars by himself yet Right the carnival hasn't Done anything but we have a scene of him doing the bumper cars and having that guy piss his pants and yeah That's supposed to be down farther Right now. It looks like it is hang on need to do some surgery there. Oh Is it in here? Okay? Never mind. Yeah, it's after all the stuff that we're working on now because we went back in time To build up Carla's relationship more that's right before we did the snatch Don't say and so do you want the uh? Do you want you want the confrontation after Carla right? I would I would imagine The confrontation would be Yeah, yeah, yeah after Carla and maybe that's maybe that's how mingo found out about the drugs Maybe someone was trying to stash something and he caught them or something I don't know because the because of the raid. I have no idea. I'm just throwing ideas out there I'm wondering how this how this goes down. I don't think that we should show How or I don't think that mingo should reveal how he knows what he knows got you okay? Like maybe mingo just shows up with I Don't know a bag of and it's not even like cocaine. It's just something else Like maybe a quarter ounce of weed or something. Yeah, it could be something small like that that would really drive Shane's paranoia Yeah And he's like he could even get a little pushback from other people like dude. It's just weed It's like it's no big deal. He's like no no drugs here And that just that listening to that whole thing and just drive Shane fucking batty Well, I think everybody by this time everybody knows that it doesn't matter what it is You know, they're not he's not gonna tolerate it. So they just they just don't do it or maybe Shane says that to Sam and Sam was like We all know how serious mingo is about the drugs or whatever. I don't know Plus, you know, this is in 2023. It's 1989. So it's true not really just you know weed. I mean, yeah Weed especially something like even like a quarter ounce. It was a big deal back in the day To get caught with something like that Well, I can't do it after that because This is the I'll just write it and we'll put it wherever. I have no idea. I just want to get started Did you see my note about Santa Claus? Yeah, yeah, you can check that's the one the ones I was telling you that's just another thing that I got from them I just didn't know if I should Resolve it or not. Yeah, you can yeah, you can sorry. I guess I do need to know this is before after he takes over the bumper cars It have to be before but that's What would see the the Mingo can confronting and kicking out the person for the for the for the drugs. Yeah So if it's before the bumper cars and it's before Karla gets snatched if he does Henry and J That makes sense because it's two people running something that if it came down to it one person could still run, right? Yeah, definitely, and I think I'll have it be a Henry That would be the woman says a dude this time They can even be a thought in there like damn you can do a Woman like that you give a fuck about me. I don't know Just literally I'm just thinking out loud What if it's a bag of speed? Okay, yeah, I got like mama mommy's little helpers especially readers younger readers might not understand that We'd back in the day and they're just like that's yeah, why is Mingo such a jerk? Right, yeah, black beauties had 10 milligrams of amphetamine and 10 milligrams of dextro Dext Dextromanphetamine some way that dextro amphetamine Just like mini whites or something No mini whites But like I'd like a bag of 3 or 400 of them Or I could just have it be a bag of Just pills Yeah, I'm gonna make something out of that. It's like you had a prescription for these or some shit like that I don't know once again just thinking out loud All right But but again, do you want this before or after he takes over the bumper cars? I? Just kind of want to set it up like when he has time Well, I figured that that that night where he's cuz you're writing the scene that goes directly after the scene that I'm writing Okay, all right, so it's before all right so before Carla is I'm sure about that. I'm gonna go up here Okay, so he's just had He's just had the he's about to have the magic moment and all that stuff, okay? so What are the lights called that they you know like it's dark out? Like floodlights or they have some kind of it would be light poles usually they pick spots that That have its own lighting So they would be like light poles out in the middle of things or they could do flood lights Yes, they also have fairy lights and things like that just a light smaller like concessions and whatnot Yeah, portable Portable lights like those those box lights that just sit on the ground and kind of shine upward that kind of thing But usually they do they do fairgrounds and like not stadiums But like football fields and things like that because they have the built-in lighting so or baseball fields is usually what they use anyways Horse tracks do the whole middle of a of a horse track. They use that I remember the one that I went to up in Maine was on was on the horse track on the inside of the horse track But usually it's they pick places that already have lighting Okay, that's shorter chapter than I thought it was gonna be and I'm done with the magic moment Okay, I think the choice of words Says all it really needs to say I'm right the way we do it is Basically, we just set up where we're going next and we kind of just delegate who's gonna write what I mean We don't really think too much about it other than you know, just following the Following the outline or talking about what we're gonna do for the day that kind of thing Hello, Jordan. How are you doing? I gotta take a break. My butt is dropping and I'm in a good way Anyways, but's throbbing a good way. I said my butt's throbbing and not in a good way And I said do butts throbbing a good way. Yes, I do mind your business Chad. I haven't had that happen Anyways, I'll be back I mean go over what I've been writing already if you want to I gotta go up and read your stuff, too Well, yeah, it was really short Huh? Yeah only like three more paragraphs. Anyways, see you in 15 Okay, sorry everybody. I don't talk much in here because it's ease channel But hello to any anyone who said hello or good morning Glad you're here. Let me finish this up and I'll read what you put Anyways, I don't know Whatever that'll do for now Roll up and see what you've done. I think I'm tapped out for creativity Yeah, I'm feeling that too. I'm just exhausted. I'm just exhausted I'm happy with what I wrote and I started the The section where they're they're gonna sleep outside. Okay, and then I finished the But like I said it's a short scene, but I think it says all I need to say Okay, we're gonna put this I Sorry, but Started was saying after saying good night to stay on my meander and then we did a little montage or whatever So on and so forth I still need to add I forgot I forgot all about Priya and the and the piranha tank, so So I'll add that at some other point, but I'm with you I think I'm done for the bank We can call it an early one so I can get some more sleep between the streams All right, I got some reading to do too probably do that until I pass out But yeah, we're booking we're on we're on track. We're doing good And we added we added about as much as we do on days when we When we stay until noon because we didn't spend you know an hour talking before beforehand I still felt like it was productive. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's a hella productive at least a thousand words If not more I was thinking this morning, man, you know thinking about what we have and how, you know, keep cleaning things up and And what we have ahead of us And I I don't know that we have 30,000 words left in this I'm wondering if it's more like 20 to 25. Well, yeah I mean, I wasn't expecting to go directly into the next phone call But yeah, I would agree with that if we're going directly into it I suspected there would be more to the you know bouncing around but we need that we do need this This is it's going to behoove us to keep this thing moving and keep it, you know Especially at this point, you know, keep things happening boom boom boom boom boom So that people aren't going like where the hell is this going kind of thing, right? Yeah, that's that's one of the reasons why yeah, why I thought Because at this point I think after After this night that I'm doing right here Uh, I I assume I mean this might be like a three three four day journey Unless we wanted to try to but I don't see the sense of like having like a Time jump, excuse me a time jump Um I mean technically, yeah, you could make this into A really long book if you could come up with Enough subplots to yeah have that happen but No, I'm fine with this. I don't want to bore my I don't want to bore myself like I'm ready to get into like where's the cocaine? Yeah, I got you um, and then after the The next phone call when he knows they're coming He's goes to get rid of it It's not there. Yeah, I figured that the day after this that I'm writing right now when they wake up And they were whatever me goes like you guys go to the um You go with K to go get whatever it is that they need and that's when he makes the phone call at that point Uh You know probably drop the drop the romance stuff or whatever since that's already been established now. It's Kind of high intensity. Mm-hmm paranoia looking over your shoulder race to the end. Yeah, uh, and then of course Um, it also wouldn't make any sense in how they found them If they're not in the next location, you know what I'm talking about because the the the family Well, first off, they're not, you know Well off because they haven't they don't have the coke that they were going to sell So they have to be able to get to the next place Um so that they can confront Shane So that makes a lot of sense to keep it as tight as possible And also if they've already run out of the coke after a couple of days that the half a pound whatever um, then You know it makes it makes it even more tense like jesus christ They they went through it that quickly kind of thing is like, you know, they're already coming the all Shane can think of all that after uh, you know Trab snatches the phone away from away from castity Yeah, I agree. Yeah, we got we got 20 000 uh or a little bit less something like that Anyways, we'll be we'll be there and if we need to pad a little bit there's root. There's definitely room for for padding um More description and stuff like that even maybe another an extra Chapter here and there of something that just slice of life or whatever. But yeah, I love I love it. I like the intensity Um, I like where we're going I like all that shit Even though I'm going to get I'm excited Somehow we got another almost 4 000 words in today Don't fucking know how no no no Hang on hang on Maybe not that many Because you got like 300 and then I got maybe Oh, shit. I did write four pages. So I've got I've got more down Oh, okay I wrote twice as much down there. Hang on I did not see Oh, okay. Shit. I mean Hang on Oh, yeah, we got about 1,900 words in I guess. Yeah Is this the uh, the library scene? Yeah, you used this going to be the library scene. Yeah, awesome Sweet. I'm uh, I'm excited about that and it would also make more sense because we've already established that uh Henry gets caught with the drugs And then there's carla gets gets snatched that we have that intensity and then we're going into the library scene to build up the telltale heart stuff and It's gonna ask that telltale heart stuff is going to escalate once he finds out that the coke's already gone And then you know, you're thinking mingo hat not mingo buzzard has it so on and so forth. Yeah, this is this is nice and tight I like this it's it's crazy because uh, we accidentally set up the vulture eye with buzzard Yeah, I just do we already established that there was the vulture eye and then and then the name buzzard No, actually, I don't think we have I think it just happened I just accidentally like now connecting it when I was trying to say we connected the eye to um You know just the vulture eye without even thinking about that the word vulture. Yeah, that's even weirder. Yeah, so we've got all these connections Yeah, accidentally with the eye like You know looking at this, uh, you know, because he's already been caught snooping around in the in the things like what are you doing in here Exactly. Yeah, and um So yeah, this is the guy that even though the guy with the vulture eye is the guy that's actually buried under the floorboard But still yeah It's it's it's cool. It's cool when shit like that happens man. I'm telling you it Well, I know it happened it's happened to you before but it happens to me like every single project I I get to the end and that's where the word vomit comes in handy because even if I don't have something I have something that I put off to the side that could come back and help later on um And if I just you know cut this and rearrange that and puzzle pieces together But yeah, it happens at least once a project for me. This one has had numerous surprises and happy happy accidents You know like uh the thing with sam taking the coke instead of uh, well not instead of but and then leaving buzzard as the red herring All that stuff all that cool shit is just kind of slotting into place It's going naturally and I might be lost at sometimes, but I like it at the very end I think we should swing them back swing back around with the whole Planet caravan thing and like you know, let's say sam's dead Uh, traven hunter dead. I don't know exactly how that's going to go down, but let's say they're dead sam's dead um Shane is asked You know, do you want to stay do you want you know, do you want to keep on this road with us? And yeah, and then then we kind of come full circle with the whole like The visual of the caravan again leaving Okay, so what I what I heard as soon as you said do you want to carry on with this is Shane said in Shane's voice in my head saying what else do I have? Yeah, and that's That's a that's a powerful last scene. I mean that's just it's understated. It's yeah Yeah Oh Yeah, okay. Yeah What else do I have? Anyways, good shit. All right, so thank you all for joining us. Um, we're gonna go ahead and take off. I'm exhausted Chad's created out He's uh done everything he can do for the day. So thank you all for joining us And we will be back not tomorrow, but thursday. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow Um, and I don't know chat you you plan on streaming over on twitch Yeah, I've been streaming. Um, I think I streamed Twice a day, uh through the weekend. Yeah, okay. All right. So you you heard it from the horse's mouth Uh streams sometimes twice a day at least once a day from what I've seen anyways because I'm following and you should be too But anyways until next time enjoy your spaghetti dream. Bye. Bye