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WoJ transcription help needed + mention new WoJ's here
Serack:
--- Quote from: derek on July 29, 2011, 12:58:15 PM ---I'm a bit lost as far as what is and isn't currently being transcribed of the new GS Q&A's, but I can squeeze 15 or 20 minutes into my schedule if anyone needs help with any of it, just shoot me a link to the video/audio.
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Youtube has videos for the first 45 min or so of the KC signing. I have audio of the last 15 min or so, but it's a pretty large file and I'm not exactly a pro at sharing 50meg files, or at trimming down audio files. The videos are still in FFA status I guess you could say. So if you want to work on those just say so. Harle1229 has the best videos up so far for that.
--- Quote from: Katarn on July 29, 2011, 02:27:59 PM ---I'll help transcribe. I couldn't hear all of what Jim said but if you give me audio/video I can possibly decipher any parts that are mumble-y.
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You could work on the KC signing as well, or On vid1 or vid3 of the naperville signing if you like, but please say so. I'm half way through #2, which wasn't where I intended to start but hey.
derek:
--- Quote from: Serack on July 29, 2011, 03:14:26 PM ---Youtube has videos for the first 45 min or so of the KC signing. I have audio of the last 15 min or so, but it's a pretty large file and I'm not exactly a pro at sharing 50meg files, or at trimming down audio files. The videos are still in FFA status I guess you could say. So if you want to work on those just say so. Harle1229 has the best videos up so far for that.
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Okay, I was under the impression someone was already working on it or had planned to start. I'll knock the last video in that series off tonight just in case someone is working on it.
As far as sharing files is concerned, if you don't have a web server to host this kind of thing on, probably the easiest way to do it these days is to install dropbox, spideroak or any other service of that nature. All of them will allow you to make a file publicly accessible. Dropbox is probably the simplest (ymmv), as you just put whatever you wish to share in the 'Public' folder of your dropbox and then get the public sharing url out of the right click menu or off the website for that particular file.
If you need to trim an audio file, it's fairly simple to do in audacity. Open up the file, select what you want to trim out, edit->cut and then file->export to save the newly trimmed copy. It's quite easy to make working with audacity be as difficult as you want it to be, though. ;)
derek:
Dictation by Derek - I will try to keep an eye on this thread and repost this when the first four are done so they are in order.
KC Q&A - part 5 (harle1229's version)
...extra time to finish this book?
JIM BUTCHER: This one was really hard to write because Dresden spends a whole big chunk of it not really able to communicate with very many people, which means that I can't write a whole bunch of snappy dialogue which is the easiest, funnest part of my job as a writer. There was a lot of description written and so on, and that's grindingly slow for me. That was part of it, was getting Dresden kind of out of that quandary.
Part of it was actually figuring out, 'Oh, wait a minute. The actual plot that I thought was happening is not exactly the plot that I thought was happening.' And that only came together in the last month or so.
A lot of it was that this book is longer than most of the other ones. In fact, it's longer than all the previous Dresden Files books.
And also, life happened. I had my kid move out on me and all of the sudden I wasn't a full time dad anymore. That was weird. That was a rebalancing issue to be dealt with.
So, I mean, there were a bunch of different things and finally I did get it done. I remember I called editor and said, "This just isn't gonna happen." And my editor just said, "Jim, you're a creative person. You people are squirrelly." And I stopped and thought about that for a minute, and I thought to myself, 'You know what? Professionally, what I do for a living is to wander around imaginary places that only exist in my head, eavesdropping on conversations between my imaginary friends and then writing it down. Yeah, no wonder I'm not severely well attached. There might be something to that.'
Hopefully the next one will come out in much better order. And then I'm working on another fantasy on the side now. I'm taking a break from that jerk Harry Dresden. I'm tired of him. I'm always tired of him at the end of the book, so it's always great to go somewhere else, and play in somebody else's world and play with different imaginary friends. And then eventually I won't be mad at Harry Dresden any more and I'll say, 'Okay, Harry, I'm not mad at you any more. Let's put you through another book.'
And...that doesn't seem very sincere, does it?
question inaudible
Okay, well, I hope you're reading more widely than me because there are so many people out there who are good. Who I read for fun...and the answer to that is -- I'm going to give you a bunch of names right now and then later I'm going to go, 'Oh, I should have said this person,' somebody I completely forgot.
The late Robert B. Parker. I love his work. I go back and reread Spencer and the Spencer series at least once a year, just because for his use of humor and his ability to turn the occasional really great phrase. Let me think.
There's a new guy named Harry Connolly who's got two books out. I don't know if you've read his series yet. The first one's called Child of Fire, and it's actually available for $0.99 if you get the electronic version. So, you should go out and secure that because he's a good writer.
There's a new guy named Benedict Jacka whose first book is coming out shortly, sometime I think late this year or early next year. It's called Fated. Keep an eye out for that guy. He's good. His name is Benedict Jacka. He's coming out from Roc. And the editor sent me the book and gave me a synopsis of it. I went, '*snort* Okay, synopsis.' And started reading and was like, 'Oh, oh, oh! This is cool!' And really, he's one of the best writers I've read in a awhile. Let's see.
I recently reread The Deed of Paksenarrion again, which is a twenty year old book from TOR. I'm not even sure it's in print at the moment but she just went back to the world and started writing again as if she hadn't stopped. And I went, 'Okay, three months is one thing. A twenty year break between book three and book four seems a little extreme to me,' but I'm just happy she's back to writing in that world again now because it's alot of fun. Let me think. Who else?
I've been reading a lot of Brandon Sanderson lately. Brandon Sanderson and I have very similar ideas and kind of philosophy when it comes to putting together fantasy worlds that actually make sense and where things happen for a good reason and there's very little of just the pure mysticism happening in the background, the inexplicable things. You can get it when it's all done. You can see how it's all put together when it's finished and I really love Brandon's work for that.
Pat Rothfuss's new book -- yeah, I did meet Pat at Comic-Con. Pat is the nicest guy. There's a video of him riding an electronic bull at one of the local clubs which is hilarious. You should see it. But Pat takes himself almost as seriously as I do, so we get got along great when we sat down and started talking. But yeah, I read his first book and I've been saving his most recent book. I've been holding it out as a carrot, saying you can read it in your spare time when you're on tour, you know, when you're in the airport or on air planes and stuff when you're touring, and that'll be your prize for getting all this work done. Okay. And then I was getting set to start the first leg of tour at Comic-Con and I pack up a bag and went, 'Great, I can take Wise Man's Fear with me. Ow. That thing's huge.' So it was like, 'Okay, where's my iPad. I'm getting this electronic,' because while I do own the low tech version, which I'll be happy that I have when EMP's go off and the zombie apocalypse begins because you'll be able to defend yourself with the books. An iPad, that won't drop even a little zombie. A copy of The Name of the Wind, somebody's gonna go down. But Pat Rothfuss is another person I enjoy tremendously.
There are many other authors. I dug the Harry Potter books, I don't care what anybody says. The Percy Jackson books were extremely well written. I know those were young adult books. I don't care. They were cool. But those are just some examples there.
What genre would you like to work in that I haven't yet just due to contracts or time?
I've still got a science fiction series that is sort of Men in Black meets X-Men on the moon. I had to go through -- it was one of these things that I really researched, that I got inaudible for no good reason, and I had to go through two hundred years of future history just basically in order to be able to call my group of good guys U.S. Marshals. You know, I had to figure out how we could get there and still able to call them that. But that's an actual science fiction series, although it's really more space opera than science fiction.
Actual science fiction at this point looks so weird in the future. I've actually stopped and started researching for actual where we're going, reading some actual futurists and so on. There's some spooky stuff coming along and it's...I don't know if I can have fun writing about that. I mostly want to have a good time.
The good part is though, the positive part, is that people are gonna be people. I don't care what year we are. We've been pretty solid in terms of what sorts of behaviours we'd expect, so I can have a good time with that no matter where we go. But that would be fun.
And I think some superhero books might be fun. I think my superheroes would probably have a good time, wind up using their powers for a bunch of things that nobody ever really thought about before.
LogicMouseLives:
Just to let Serak and the rest of you folks know; I also recorded the KC signing Q&A. I hadn't bothered putting it up yet because I saw the other cameras going and didn't think it'd be needed, but I did get all of it. The video is slightly lower quality than harle1229's, but it's better than nothing. I'll try to get the portion she missed up on YouTube as soon as I can. Hopefully in the next few hours.
LML
Edit: Here's the link to my first segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIO0J_wyogw It may not be viewable for a little while. There's apparently some sort of review or moderation process. Or something. :P
And here's "Part 7" the final installment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLek6oQ5qlg
Enjoy!
Final edit: had to retry uploading Part 7. And I apologize in advance for the fact that my Nano picked up every single bit of my laughter. But at least you can hear everything else too.
bookwormsam:
Hey Serack, got a question for you. On panels...do you want everyone's stuff or just Jim's?
Sam
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