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WoJ transcription help needed + mention new WoJ's here
Maro_Shioa:
Ill do the Dayton one, figure since I was there i should. Will try to transcribe it all by this weekends end.
bellekell:
I am not sure where we are with this, but I would be glad to help. I have plenty of down time this week once the kiddos are in school.
I wasn't sure if the 53% is still an accurate #. Just tell me where to go to get listen to the interviews, which ones are complete/not complete, and I will do.
Serack:
--- Quote from: bellekell on May 22, 2011, 11:55:18 PM ---I am not sure where we are with this, but I would be glad to help. I have plenty of down time this week once the kiddos are in school.
I wasn't sure if the 53% is still an accurate #. Just tell me where to go to get listen to the interviews, which ones are complete/not complete, and I will do.
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It's up to date. The 53% is of the interviews or Q&A's... some of the low hanging fruit have already been done which makes the percentage seem a bit higher than it is in terms of minutes of audio/video. But some of the meatier ones have been taken care of too.
As for knowing where to go, just go by the original post for that information.
Tsunami:
--- Quote from: Tsunami on November 18, 2010, 02:31:53 PM ---I think you're missing a part of that 2008 Comic-Con Q&A session.
There is this Video out there, that i'm pretty sure is Part 0 of that panel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKRYe0ZWHo
I've already transcribed part of that here. http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,14868.msg687203.html#msg687203
Sadly I've no time to spare to transcribe more at the moment, but feel free to use what's already there.
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Yeah... quoting myself
Here is the part i mentioned again. The original post seems to have fallen victim to automatic deletion.
1:53
I'm gonna crush your regard for me right here.
The Codex Alera Book, It actually came... I wrote that Book, the first Book of this series, I wrote it on a bet.
*Laughter*
No, I mean like literally.
I was an aspiring writer, wich is to say I had some things wirtten that weren't very good.
But i was on a lot of writing lists online, and i engaged in a lot of diskussions, and i was quite the internet loudmouth.
I am still the internet loudmouth, I just happen to have some publishing credits now.
But, back then there was this discussion going on... there was this big argument going on in this writing group about the "Sanctity of the Idea" as kind of like this holy thing in writing. That if you got a great enough Idea, no matter how terrible you write it, it's still gonna be a really good book and be really successful... look at jurassic Park.
*Laughter*
Ok... that was not my example, ok. That was somebody elses example.
Cause I was on the other side of the argument, wich was: even if you've got an idea that has been done a lot, and is like a tired old cliché, you can still take it and put your spin on it, and create a new and vibrant and good story out of it, if you're sufficiantly... if you present it right.
So my argument was for the presentation of the writer, the other side was for the holyness of the idea.
And this discussion went on and on, it was one of those discussion where you hit the reply button and then you just hit the caps-lock key and start typing.
You know, one of those discussions.
And finally this guy comes up to me, the guy who was the loudmouth on the other side of the discussion, and says: "Put your money where your mouth is. I want to give you a terrible story idea, let me see you write it into a good book."
And being the young and arrogant loudmouth that i was i said: "No. You give me TWO terrible ideas and i'll use them BOTH"
So the guy says, "Ok here's the first terrible idea that i'm sick of: I'm sick of "Lost Roman Legion" There's so many lost roman legion books, they're terrible, all the lost roman legions should have been found by now. "Lost roman Legion" that's the first terrible Idea."
I'm like: "Ok, lost roman legion, got it. Hit me with idea number two."
And he say's...: "Pokemon."
*Laughter*
4:05
So.
So what I did was I took those ideas and i went and looked at them.
Now Lost roman legion generally refers to the ninth iberian Legion that disappeared while marching in the alps through friendly territorry during a thunderstorm
Now I think odds are excellent that either the territorry was less friendly of the thunderstorm was quite a bit worse than anybody thought it was, but let's say ok, they went somewhere and they're gonna go off lost roman legion and i went and looked who was in this roman legion. You know its half romans,roman citizens... you know italians, and about half German mercenaries. I said Ok, I'm going to take them to this world, and theyre going to be able to form their own society. And that was how aleran society formed
you've got these huge romanic type cities but they're surrounded in the countryside by these German style freeholds.
That's where that came from.
And i said, but where are they gonna go... Land of Pokemon. Ok. That'll be my magic system.
And i looked at Pokemon.
Now Pokemon itself if basically a combination of two ideas. It's a litterallisation of the Shinto Religion that hold the belief in the spirits of the divine in all aspects of nature ... the Kami that are in everything. So in a giant mountain there's a giant divine spirit, and you'd better respect it. And in a little tiny pebble there is a little tiny divine spirit, and you'd probably ought to respect it... but if you don't, whats it gonna do...
So, that literalisation, thats what Pokemon is the literalisation of Shinto meets Professional Wrestling.
So i said, let me do that literalisation of Shinto, that's where i'm gonna draw my magic system from, is from that exact same source. Let's take these spirits that are in the various aspects of nature and we'll say ok, those are the things that people can interact with and thats where the magic comes from.
Ok, now i just gotta have a good name for them, because i can't call them elementals... and i can't call em Pokemon... cause somebody did that. So i said what am i gonna call these guys... and in the background while I'm writing or comeing up with ideas I usually have a movie that I like and know really really well on in the background as, instead of background music.
And the movie that was on was "Big trouble in little China". And it just got to the part where Egg Shen, the old sorcerer, is sitting around talking and Egg Shen looks up at Jack Burton and says: "All tension in the universe is caused by movement between positive and negative FUURIES."
And i went "Uh! FUURIES"... it's even Greaco-Roman.
And... so... that's where it came from.
questioner: I think you've won the bet, that definetly came out well.
Oh, you know I went back to the guy and said "You know what, i've got something really good going here, but i'm not gonna say anything, because i think i can sell it and publish it one day, so i don't wanna publish it on the web now."
And the guy goes "Aha... so what you're saying is... I won!"
And I'm like..." yep... you won..." and i finished book five last week, so...
Serack:
--- Quote from: Tsunami on May 28, 2011, 09:38:44 AM ---Yeah... quoting myself
Here is the part i mentioned again. The original post seems to have fallen victim to automatic deletion.
k, so...
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Thanks bro
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