 Good morning. Welcome to church of the chair Where we celebrate all things we do while seated. I am your host E and today we're gonna be doing writing sprints First thing this morning Let people come in and chat for a little bit Do it about 15 minutes Those of you that don't know I use a gravity timer. This is because I'll have my My phone off and I suggest you do the same. This is $10 on Amazon Or you get an egg timer for five bucks at Walmart. Whatever works for you um with the gravity timer all you do is Whatever time you want to set it for Put that up and then the clock reads the time Hey, so I'm gonna be going over what I wrote During my last my last run Hey, Hailey You made a hack of the card. I'll try something else Good luck Do tomorrow and draw some moon kind of he's now instead. All right. Have fun Looking forward to seeing that one Give you all early birds a sneak peek. Well, not a sneak peek. I doubt you guys will ever read it, but It's uh, or if you do read it, it won't be by this name. So He dreams of starshine of collapsing gases coalescing a cacophony of creation destroyed cyclical and compounding A dark so bright it fills them with emptiness nothingness expanding within Eating away from the inside driving a hunger for starvation deprivation Cognitive dissonance hollowed out by an ever-present blindness with the same prefects The dichotomy of a man who's knowingly built his home on a fault line He won't budge What won't budge? He doesn't know Boom I can't wait for all the e is this horror Everything's horror. Horror is an emotion Horror is an emotion. It's not a genre. All genres are horror All horror is this conflict drama The next line is pretty good too. Hang on. Hang on. I'm I'm feeling to myself this morning. I'm feeling myself The earth is chuckberry on mdma rocking and rolling Some say the ground shakes during an earthquake. It doesn't it undulates like tide He dashes from one corner of his apartment to the other Saving what he can and missing more than he could ever replace A picture of mom Mid twirl in an open field circa 1980 something Crucified on sunshine plummets and explodes Glass and wood skitters skate across hardwood Struts and joists creak and wine Dust puffs powders his hair California structures are built to move. He is not Down he goes five nine two fifty lands hard Shards pierces back his nape Sunday bloody sunday Woop woop Good ish good ish I'm gonna be someone out there that saves this and tries to do research. He's like, I'm gonna find this book I'm gonna find it. I'm gonna find it. Yeah. Yeah You go you you go find it brother sister Sibling You go find it Have fun with that Go get your coyote on then And remember there was no moon out if you want to go for accuracy I'm just playing do whatever you want. But there was no moon out is all thunder and lightning in the distance Maybe howlin at the stone. Yeah sure Howling at the slightly confused bat that got lost Well, I was on it when I when I wrote this one hold up now He dreams of falling a meaningless life ending with a boring death splat jars awake Still dark outside Not even a hint of purple over the interstate Not cave dark either. No never in San Bernardino The black above the mountains is speckled with stars Holes poked into the fabric of space glinting with the possibility of a brighter world beyond this one Whoo What I be doing over here though, what I be doing Shit existential crisis. Yeah, that's that's exactly what this person's going for So thank you for validating me because I love writing stuff that does not Basically, I don't like holding readers hands, you know, um, I want people to understand what I'm getting at without saying Without spelling it out for them. So Perfection. Thank you. I just deleted 1500 words that I didn't like because I didn't like them And before y'all like, how do you know it's bad because all the other stuff I know is good So I just went ahead and got rid of it because I am not happy with that Bye-bye darlings. Bye-bye Uh, yeah, rather than saying John was having an existential crisis. You showed it To use in Yeah, I use a metaphor. Yeah all metaphors and similes. That's uh, that's how I write. That's how I've always written And it's funny because I've had a numerous I've had numerous editors go Say What you mean But I'd rather mean what I say Um, and I know that's a little bit of word play um, but You know, don't don't use don't overuse metaphors and similes and all that stuff when I don't enjoy writing any other way. So why would I change to suit, you know, what what they're looking for it's another thing I tell people all the time is like if If you have an editor or an agent Who is constantly telling you to change what you wrote first off? I don't know why they accepted the book for publication to begin with um You either like what you're going what you acquired or you or you don't Um, so I I tell people all the time if they're asking you to change multiple things about the project Uh, you're in trouble. Um, and if you've already signed a contract There's not much you can do Especially early on You want to fight for creative control? and don't settle for nonsense like, uh The contracts that say that the the publisher or the agent or the editor has final say so of the product um And if they get to a point most most publishers if they get to a point where you're not making them happy They will just you know mutually they will say they need to mutually agree to get me to End the contract, uh, and a lot of them have that in there some of them Are truly shady and put stuff in their contracts Um, they word things so that they have control over your words over the uh over what comes out So just just be careful Uh, when you're when you're signing contracts Make sure you read your contracts and if you don't understand it get a lawyer or uh, even just read it to someone else Uh, because sometimes a lot of the time, uh, we have author blinders where uh, we're just so excited about the Scenario or the book or whatever we want to get it out there That we overlook, uh, distressing clauses in contracts And more more so now than ever we're seeing a lot of it with all of the uh publishers closing You know, he had silver shamrock dark views. Yeah, just they're just dropping like flies at this point What is the point in saying in just saying things outright if you can shape your writing style to capture the essence of a feeling right? Yeah Um, and I I I really do think that's what people mean when they say show. Don't tell um It's it's about, you know, putting the reader in place without forcing them into that place. Um, and unfortunately nowadays With attention spans being what they are Most publishers want you to just get to the point and most readers want you to get to the point But I think there's something to be said about beautiful language and Not over writing. Um, not You know, it's like he turned left Into the hallway like why does he need to be left? You know that that that kind of thing, you know um and most most readers like Building and then that's why we read so that we can build up the images in our head So give them just enough information and move the hell along Good morning, brian. How you doing? If all books just said what was happening outright with no frills, it just becomes monotonous. Yeah John was having a breakdown is not as effective as what you thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that there's There's getting to the point and just john felt sad, right? uh, another thing is there's a the Chapter title for this one is called cavitation And it's not a word that you hear all the time But if you google it or look up the meaning of it it fits perfectly So even the chapter title plays into the feel of what the character is going through Not bad. Thank you. You I'm doing fantastic brian. Um, it's been it's been a really really good morning And yeah, I think you guys saw I know hailey saw it over on the discord, but I woke up Uh, well first off yesterday was a really bad pain day because I spent so long in a chair playing resiny before and we'll get back to that tomorrow, but tonight's game night. Um, anyways We I played the game so long I was in the chair for like 12 13 hours because I'm also playing my own playthrough Trying to get a hundred percent over there as I go along with uh with the playthrough that I'm doing on youtube um with the with the streams and everything but Uh, so I spent so long in a chair. It doesn't matter how comfortable a chair is For me the longer I stay in a chair Um the the more I hurt So I took yesterday off and I was hurting so bad that you know, I took some gummies. You know the kind Um, I took some gummies and I passed out Um, and then I woke up at I think 230. I believe it was I woke up at 230 And I went out on my porch and I was smoking a cigar and just sitting there and just enjoying it There was lightning off in fact. It's over on the discord. I I shot a little shot a quick video Trying to capture this but all you can really hear are crickets and all you can really see is You know some lightning off in the distance But it was there was thunder and lightning and coyotes Screaming out in the distance howling you could you hear him? It was amazing. Uh, it was a very magical Uh set piece. I guess you'd call it um But uh, yeah, I was just sitting there. I was like I I got to share this because this is cool So I tried to record it several times couldn't get it couldn't get Um, and the one that I did share I don't even think you can hear crickets in that one I didn't put my earbuds in Um, but uh, there was lightning off in the distance is very very pretty If other people like books that are literal and to the point they can go And to the point oh literal and to the point they can go read those exactly Um, I like your style. You know, I'm glad you weren't wrongly persuaded to change it. Yeah, um It is what makes your writing special. Thank you. Um the I think the the whole Old point I'm getting at is you got to have fun and do what you want It's just like if you're looking for a significant other if you're looking for another human being to spend your life with Um, do you Be yourself and the right people will want to be around you. It's the same thing with your writing um And it goes to the same thing with you know Going with a significant trying to find, you know, someone to date if it's not If your writing isn't going well if your relationship isn't going well Then maybe look for something new not everybody needs to be a writer not everyone can be a writer um, but it's it's also it's just You do you I guess that is the uh the the the point I'm trying to make is to be yourself and do What you want as long as you're not hurting anybody, but I beat that drum to death Uh, I have to find a video. Yeah, it's a it's over on discord. It's a short 20 second clip from my porch Um, and you see the lightning off in the distance and then you hear my morning my morning voice Which is this is pretty much my morning voice. It's a little deeper You know that kind of thing you can hear crickets in it. E Just you were surrounded by crickets so you couldn't hear the crickets over the crickets Yeah, I remember you saying that on discord too. That's funny Let's see here Yeah, somebody says writer get to the point me let the writer cook Yeah See the the thing the thing is with any good editor reads ahead. Um And I I think We're plagued Especially now with attention spans being what they are. I think we're plagued by people taking surface level Taking everything at surface level instead of getting into, you know Digging deeper drilling down and finding out what the point is of what the person is writing I've gotten so many. Um, I had an editor at one point in time. I no longer work with them And this is one of the reasons why um, where I have something there and they would say this doesn't make any sense Uh, please edit and then like three pages down Literally it would say disregard Previous comment about this not making sense. It makes perfect sense Why comment that to begin with? If it's if you are making the notes for yourself and get rid of them before you send you send them to to to the writer It's so hard to find decent editing these days because of that because of attention spans because of people not wanting to read past the surface level If I draw a concept that suits my own style I enjoy it and it goes well if I try To create some photorealistic art piece that isn't fitting with my own cartoony cutesy style It is a mess and a chore exactly and again Well other than artwork that you do for you know compensation for commission, whatever If you're not enjoying it, why do it, you know, mind the business that pays you Other than that do what you want to do just do it I understand You ain't the man you ain't the man Also, I'm trying a new setup So I'll be able to see comments as they pop up as I'm writing So We'll be on and off here. Um, probably take a break every 30 minutes or so. Also. I need to set my timer All right 30 minutes on the clock for the first sprint. Uh, you guys can chat as you want to I'm in no rush here Oh, it's raining Just just a little so it's like pratt pratt pratt Pratt pratt pratt It's uh good vibes this morning Yeah, like how you doing? I'm doing fine Doing real good He's all little I don't know if they're mosquitoes or gnats or what they are but I'm drawing a cody howling on a moon this night sharing my screen as I draw drawing between it howling at a lamppost Or a confused looking bat confused looking bats sounds funny. Ooh, that hits different That hits different confused moth flying by lamppost. That's awesome. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and take a break um, I will be back In 10 or 15 minutes Y'all hang out I'll to you Anyways, I'll be back You're just gonna lurk Zoe. Oh, welcome. Welcome in and lurk Phone's dead. My phone is dead I'm sorry. I shot you with subscriptions. Oh, we I have been subscribed to you. I subscriptuated How you doing this morning? You still here? You know, it's funny, uh, Brian There's uh, we we figured out because I'm one of those people, you know that likes to go into detail when they're, you know, playing games so Every single resident evil that has one of those opening sections be it the original version of four Be it the resident evil five um, I don't believe six has it, uh, but the opening and uh, resident evil eight has it seven doesn't But every single one of those sections at the beginning you have to survive for four and a half minutes We timed it this time and you actually have to survive for five minutes this time From the time that you were spotted till the time that the the bell tower or a clock or whatever it is starts ringing Um is five minutes and I'm wondering why they tacked on an extra 30 minutes I'm also wondering. I haven't played the the harder difficulties yet But I'm wondering if the harder difficulties last even longer. All right, Hailey All right. Have fun looking forward to the to the art awesome Hailey Oh, wow Pretty damn awesome. Nice. Thanks for sharing Hailey. I'm sorry Hailey The rub it out just had to rub it out Y'all know how it is So I'm so sorry Let me go back to work Sorry Yes, I saw I saw it Hailey, but I didn't want to comment on it I Yes, it needs some work sorry I'm just I'm trying to live my best life and you know be kind And if you don't have something nice to say don't say it at all, you know that kind of thing and uh, just I'm let I'm letting you say it this time, you know, normally I'm like, oh stop being so hard on yourself But if I'm quiet I love you Hailey Love you. It needs to be set on fire I've the I'm not going to argue with you Not gonna argue it. I'm gonna make something else and give him that because it's funny. Yeah It anyways, I here's the thing. I know you can do better. That's that's all I'm gonna say That's all I'll add. I know you can do better. So do better Now that just goes to show, you know, my honesty stands no matter what If if you don't but but this should make you realize that when I say I love something that you do I mean it because If I'm not saying something Anyways, I'm I'm gonna move on now. I'm gonna move on. I love you. I love you to death And I know how insanely fucking talented you are But I'm also not here to crush your hopes and dreams. So it is what it is. I love you Do better Just amazing. Oh, I forgot to set my timer. How long have I been sitting here? Anybody know? Thanks. Yeah, I love you too. And uh, that's the best Do better be better. Am I right? Let's change the subject. I'm awkward as hell now because I don't want to Yeah, I didn't want to I didn't want to have to do do do this Go make a greeting card. You can you can do it. I believe in you Here's the thing if I didn't if I if I didn't If I didn't care I would just be like Well, see that's the thing. Here's the problem with what I just said make kind of a bit of hypocrisy because I was like if Just keeping my mouth shut like if I didn't care I wouldn't say anything but I mean at this time I agreed with you, but I didn't say anything on a discord. Um, I do care. I do care Yeah, it is funny as fuck it is Here's the thing like you you were you drawing and all your stuff It's hilarious that you used a stencil And it came out that bad. That's what I find funny about it Like had you just done what you normally do? I think it would have came out fantastic But you tried to use the stencil and the stencil Made it look like someone just like through paint at I don't know. I don't know how it came out looking bad, but somehow It managed it. I don't it's it But here's the thing if you I know you shared it just to laugh But here's the thing for anybody else watching if you don't want an honest opinion from me Don't ask me because it's it's going to come out I have no filter when it comes to my friends. Like if someone's like, hey, look at this. Isn't this amazing? I'll be like Amazing's a word Not for this But amazing's a word Stay blessed. I don't Yeah, definitely that's that's one of those things and that's why I like uh people Who make things for other people like if you make me something I'm gonna treasure it far more than if you just go out and buy me something um, and uh, it's it's one of those it's I find it I I just think it means so much more when someone puts effort into something Even if it's terrible uh Then I would you know, it's like uh Some of the I still have a bunch of these beanies that my mom made for me that are steven king themed Like, uh, one of them is a cat. I don't want to dig it out. Um, because I don't want to go through those memories But the uh, there's one with like cat ears I use it for my pet cemetery review because she made me uh a beanie that looked like a cat had yellow cat eyes It was gray had cat ears And the thing looks god awful But it is one of my favorite Favorite things that my mother has ever made for me. Um, and I treasure it dearly But it looks fucking awful. It looks terrible Um, but it means the world to me because she made it Um, and she put her heart into it Um, but yeah, I mean it does not look good And I loved it so much that I actually uh wore it when I did my pet cemetery Thursday theorist and I think I did it for the review also But uh, anyways, yeah, it's uh It was a hot mess But I love it I love it more than it had she went out and bought me like one of those actual cat hats I thought you I'm not trying to rush you off Hailey, but I thought you were leaving Are you hanging out? What is this line going down my forehead? What the hell? The light I need to change the lighting in here. Um, I got to order leds Uh ring lights. I have one I have one and I keep over here Um Either side, but uh, I need both of them so I can get some decent lighting Uh, I have a handmade card by rob that's hilarious and has a poem inside I love you so much with all of my heart even when you roll over in bed and far Yes, yes It's uh, yes Yeah I will most definitely be making a tough love positive animal sticker. I love you do better awesome Awesome. That's going on a t-shirt. That's definitely going on a t-shirt Hey tim. Yeah, it's an early one. I've been up since 230 I don't t-spring in red bubble now t-spring is more expensive, but the quality of t-shirts is a lot better Yeah, if you thought about six dollar tees, I'm thinking about that for our shop It's where I get all my shirts is where I got this one. They're super super fucking comfortable And they're uh, they're only six bucks usually. Um, they they do have some that are more expensive and because I'm a bigger dude um, I had to get uh Um, I had to pay like three dollars more because the shirts are bigger But uh, yeah, that's that's the only place I buy from anymore because you get this quality. I mean look how clean this is It's amazing I got more on the way too Thank you, hailey I've worn it several times on the channel. So All right. Yeah, I've been I've been working for more than 30 minutes. I'm gonna go take a break. Um, I'll come back We'll probably go for three hours today. I don't know. Um, if you guys want to sit and chat once I get done writing I'm going really really slow on this project. Uh, But it's it's coming along very nicely uh not doing anywhere near the uh the amount of writing that I used to do, uh, just because Slow and steady wins the race at the moment Uh, maybe in the future. I just don't have much time for editing anymore So I'm trying to get everything right and I know I've told people not to do this But I've also been doing this for almost 30 years now. So anyways Uh, just shy. No, not just shy. Let's see here when I was 19 I'm 42 now you guys can do the math Anyways, I'll be back in a little bit Break time Hello zoe. How are you doing? Are you doing good? I hope so If you missed it I told you earlier that I was uh that I subscribed to you You have a very interesting channel and I dig it very much Uh on this trailer Okay, let's get back to work I don't know. So funny glasses. I don't know what you're talking about Uh, let's see here. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and take my break when I get back. Uh We can chat for there's only two people in here But um, if there's anybody here when I get back we can chat If not, then I will probably write for another 30 minutes and head on out Anyway, y'all sit tight or go about your business. Whatever. I don't care. Bye Anyways, we are under a tornado watch So I'm gonna go ahead and go because I'm not about to be out in this office slash shed While uh, yeah Maybe possible in incoming tornadoes. But anyways, um, I am fine right now We have electricity obviously and all that stuff. I'll update you guys on discord. I'll take care talk to you next Whatever. Bye