Today’s Topic – When you use a hobby to block your passion

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• From 2015

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Do the creative task you want to do

The Real-world Task for the Day

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Today’s Topic – A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” And More if you can teleport

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• The Role
  • Anyone who is one the road
• How could a minor personal?
• What is the job?
• Why does it matter
• Do they have family
• Friends
• How long are they gone
• How much information and goods can they carry
• They will help destroy the economy

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a character to be a friend of your guard

The Real-world Task for the Day

Check in with your loved ones

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Today’s Topic – A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” And More if you can teleport

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Podcast Show Flow

• Is the Tavern trope bad?
• I know more about Mainly English travel. Japan and Arabic versions are being looked into
• Surplus or Religion leads to Traveling for all peoples in the middle ages
• Until Trains and massive ships changed it all again
• Before long-distance travel was for the rich and their parties
  • Caravans if stuck on land, ships being preferred
• Walking, Eating, Sleeping for the lower classes
  • Walking and maybe hitchhiking
    • 10 miles a day up to 40 for courier
    • Up to 6o miles by horse
  • Eating Travel food stews and porridge not 9 days old
    • Inn if in a larger town or at locals house (bed and breakfast)
    • Hunting and fishing might have local laws
      • Dog or Ferret
    • Camping or lodging
      • Inn if you could, private homes, barns, or empty stables
      • Under the thicket
    • How could this be affected in a fantasy setting
      • Good
      • Bad

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Think about your setting how far do people have to travel to work, How far can they go for fun

The Real-world Task for the Day

Walk to work for a month

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Today’s Topic – Why they travel and Why it matters

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Podcast Show Flow

• From the point of view of the Agrarian Society
• Why it is so important
• War
• Trading
• Migration
• Jobs / Education
• Religion
• Curiosity / Holiday
• Biological evolution from our Hunter Gather past?

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Plan a trip for your character to go there and back again

The Real-world Task for the Day

The Hobbit Read or audio

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Today’s Topic – Part 3 on Worldbuilding culture nouns

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• The parts of Culture
  • Characters served up last season
  • People Starting in the last episode of season 4
  • Religion
• People Questions
  • Where does the religion exist?
  • Who uses the religion
  • What happens in the religions
  • When are your holy times
  • How does the worship happen
  • Why does the worshipping happen

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

When the gods are failed

The Real-world Task for the Day

Have some purpose to this new year

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Today’s Topic – Part 2 on Worldbuilding culture nouns

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• The parts of Culture
  • Characters served up last season
  • Religion (In 2 episodes)
  • People Starting in a minute give or take a Michael
• People Questions
  • Who are they?
  • What makes them different
  • Where do they live?
  • When are they?
  • How do they live
  • Why do they exist?

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Bring your people home

The Real-world Task for the Day

Widen The Window

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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• Not the Buddha’s training on virtue, mind, and wisdom
• Not with Wasteland of the Aeil
• My neither holy nor unholy trinity of ideas that merge into a culture
• The Collective, Beliefs, and Characters of a group of common people
  • The Collective is how I look at fantasy races or ethnicities
  • The Beliefs which can be religious or other important ideas
  • The Characters… see season 3
• The Three parts working together create the cookie dough of culture.

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Look at your main race, culture wargame changing major changes see the variations. Even character changes could be massive think of Greek culture with no alexander.

The Real-world Task for the Day

Level up some virtue, mind, or wisdom into your life Joy of letter kenny

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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Podcast Show Flow

• Choose your cultural pill Red or Blue
• The Red Truth – What is a Culture?
• The Blue Truth – There is no Spoon… Culture only exists from the outside because it is believed to exist from within
• A Culture Exist through an argument between its parts
  • … To Be a real Member you must”
  • … We must be better by”
  • … We must remember”
  • …We must forget”
• Culture is a Circle
  • There is not beginning or Ending
  • The idea culture is an illusion caused by the nature of it changing and consensus
  • No Beginning or End (Hopefully)
  • Rapid Changes are possible
  • Names Can Change new tribes can form
• How to make it work
  • Treat cultures like Characters
  • Some or Static and Some are dynamic
  • Realize you can never finish them

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

If you have an epic story how would your main culture change

The Real-world Task for the Day

Little Changes for big problems

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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Podcast Show Flow 

• What is culture not
  • A state, nation, or tribe… but
  • Achievements of human another races achievement….
  • A batch of bacteria
• What is culture?
  • the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
  • A building block for another culture
  • A group of 2 or more people that share believes and ideas working together towards a collective goal.
  • A Venn diagram mosaic of smaller culture groups
• Is Culture the Chicken or the Egg?
  • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
  • A set of nouns we use to do something
• How is it
• 7 prongs of Worldbuilding Cultural Ladder
• Social groups (RPG Game group)
• Local group (City, village)
• Region groups
• Status Groups
• Culture Ethnicity
• Common Language Ethnicities
• World Group

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

What is your main setting’s cultural ladder?

The Real-world Task for the Day

Look at the artifacts in your life that have lead to your current believes

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Today’s Topic – Clothing is not optional

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Podcast Show Flow 

• You need to know them 
• Stories or list or both 
• +1/-1 from norm 

• Meta and Extended 
• Where are they? 

• • Now 
  • Are They from here 

• Who Are they? 

• • Name 
  • Attributes 
  • Personality 
  • Quirks 
  • What is their voice 

• What do they do? 

• • Class 
  • Skills (Physical, Mental, Social, and Vocational) 
  • What is character goal? 

• • • Do they achieve it? 

• When do they do it? 

• • When do they exist compared to the setting date 

• How do they get it done? 

• • What is need to learn to reach the goal? 
  • How are they connected to the world? 

• • • Allies and Enemies?  
    • How do they fit into the settings society? 
    • Is the setting society theirs? 
    • What is their status 

• Why are they doing it? 

• • The Motivation 
  • Why are they doing what they are doing? 
  • Do they think their reason is the actual reason? 

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Find your Favorite characters in life and use it 

The Real-world Task for the Day

Live in the present 

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Today’s Topic – The making of a good feather duster… err character

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Podcast Show Flow 

• Beyond the Meta  
• We have lots of create episodes on character going back to at least episode 48 and 49 
• We have talked, Traits and flaws, stories, backgrounds, create great detail and motivation.  
• Talking characters one dimensional or complex and sometimes even flat 

• Before we take a break on three we need to cover one more very important character concept, voice 
• Voice is the finishing salt to a great character this leads from  

• • Hi to “do not mean to pry, but you don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” 
  • How does a character speak 

• • • How intelligent is the character?  

• • • How articulate 
    • Do they like speaking 

• • Refer to your characters background does it make sense? 
  • When does their expression break the rules 
  • How does it break the rules 

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Please find a voice for my character.  

The Real-world Task for the Day

Use a smoothaive if needed.  Realize people you disagree with at not they enemy.  

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Today’s Topic – He is Dangerous

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Podcast Show Flow 

• Basic Meta Questions 

• • Who are they? – Important character in priest class 
  • What do they do? – Priest Growth, Rain, and Genderswap plus the rule makers  
  • Where are they? – 2 tier Central, and frog in the tree 

• • When do they do it?  – Run the island 
  • How do they get it done? –  They are bigger than any village 
  • Why are they doing it? – Leading 

• Extended Meta 

• • Type of character? – ??? 

• • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round – ???? 
  • Who is the character connected to? – Every village and the core priest 
  • How are they connected? – Religion 

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Caiaphas and his Toadie 

The Real-world Task for the Day

Start the Sandman Comic, I am not sure of the author. 

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Today’s Topic – Lightning not included 

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Podcast Show Flow

• • Basic Meta Questions 
  • Who are they? Bad boy, leads for self-gratification 
  • What do they do?  – Leader the Hunger Empire 
  • Where are they? – From afar until the act  
  • When do they do it?  – 2nd act and on 
  • How do they get it done? – Fear, and willingness 
  • Why are they doing it? – Prove themselves 
  • Extended Meta 
  • Type of character? – Static 
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round – Flat 
  • Who is the character connected to? – Everyone in a bad way 
  • How are they connected? – Strife 

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Cut back on the meat 

The Real-world Task for the Day

Soylent Green 

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Today’s Topic – Let’s eat a Frog… or even a toad

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Podcast Show Flow

• Basic Meta Questions
  • Who are they? – Warrior Leader (Veteran) She
  • What do they do? – Leader of Vanguard
  • Where are they? – on a ship getting ready
  • When do they do it? – Breaks the idea what the world was like
  • How do they get it done? – Number plus physical prowess
  • Why are they doing it? – Burnt ground both way. Desperate
• Extended Meta
  • Type of character? Static
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round
  • Who is the character connected to? Big Bad Lizzy
  • How are they connected? Oath bound

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Have your races eaten… fantasy races

The Real-world Task for the Day

Watch Cannibal the Music

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Today’s Topic – Let’s Build a Frog… yes it is not a toad

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Podcast Show Flow

• Basic Meta Questions
  • Who are they? The Chonsen one – Play him as every
  • What do they do? Farmer
  • Where are they? On Farm on the Island
  • When do they do it? At the beginning of story
  • How do they get it done? The journey with the artifact
  • Why are they doing it? Desperation
• Extended Meta
  • Type of character? Dynamic vs Static
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume
  • Who is the character connected to?
  • How are they connected?

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Read the little blue truck

The Real-world Task for the Day

Read the little blue truck

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Today’s Topic – Yeah, Nice not great but nice

Jacob Hess. You may have caught his first book, The Bright Abyss. Jacob tells stories that are going to be reaching into your darkest fears and your deepest belongings.
He wants to connect with you through his stories in a way that many other writers don’t bother trying and where we were lucky enough to get them on the show. So without further ado, an interview with Jacob Hess.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Warmup
  • Hello is there anything else you would like people to know about you?
  • Do you feel Orc or Elf today
  • (Note in most worlds elves are considered nice and orcs are naught. Feel free to use any race that comes to mind. )
• Main Feature: (A Conversation about these topics)
  • Tell us about your latest work?
  • How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
  • When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
• Tell a STORY about how you knew you love building worlds.
  • What was your “I can” experience?
• Biggest achievement to date?
• When you learned of it.
• What was its impact on your progress as an author and a worldbuilder?
  • What real-world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
  • Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer
• Character Building:
• What is your formula for a great character?
• What do you dislike about character creation
• What is your number 1 tip about character creation?
• Wrap up:
  • Thank you so much for letting us interview you today.
  • How can people learn more about you?

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Give one of your characters a wasteful use of high power

The Real-world Task for the Day

Learn some stretches and exercises at your desk

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Today’s Topic – Yeah, Nice not great but nice

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Podcast Show Flow

• Not Quite the 3ms
• Meant to add flavor, really a specialty quirk
• They are linked to the Mythic but do not effect directly effect the story
• Dark Ones Own Luck
• Interest Power Quirks

Podcast Show Flow

• Not Quite the 3ms
• Meant to add flavor, really a specialty quirk
• They are linked to the Mythic but do not effect directly effect the story
• Dark Ones Own Luck
• Interest Power Quirks

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Give one of your characters a wasteful use of high power

The Real-world Task for the Day

Learn some stretches and exercises at your desk

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Today’s Topic – Yeah, they all suck

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Podcast Show Flow

• I am talking fantasy here
  • Tech, Supernatural, Superhero Power
• If there is nothing here it is not fantasy
• How are they mythical
• We are talking Character but
  • Racial, Prop, Place, or
• Interesting Powers from fiction
  • If not fantasy how can we make it mythic

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Think of your creator side as a fantasy character. What is your creating Mystic Support?

The Real-world Task for the Day

Listen to podcast while walking, Brain

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Today’s Topic – Yeah, they all suck

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Podcast Show Flow

1. Researching real-world connections
2. RPG Starter
3. Backstory(s)
   1. Meeting characters they know. Normal and extreme behaviors will need to be explored in the story.
4. Rabbit Hole Stories
5. Freewriting stories when advantages and disadvantages impacted the character
   1. Develop or use quirks in the stories
6. Go beyond the character’s
7. My stopping point is when I feel like I know the character

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a character of yourself, and make them the hero

The Real-world Task for the Day

Find a topic you have a strong opinion and create a good counter argue

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Today’s Topic – Yeah, they all suck

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Podcast Show Flow

• Characters are never completely fleshed out, until your story is complete the can still grow and change
• Basic Meta Questions
  • Who are they?
  • What do they do?
  • Where are they?
  • When do they do it?
  • How do they get it done?
  • Why are they doing it?
• Extended Meta
  • Type of character? Dynamic vs Static
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume
  • Who is the character connected to?
  • How are they connected?

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Build your Moiraine, Lucifer, Baralis

The Real-world Task for the Day

Share your characters with family/friend/undercroft

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Today’s Topic – The Chosen Underdog

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• Why Tropes are important
• 5 Favorite Troupes
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

What are your favorite character tropes?

The Real-world Task for the Day

What is your trope?

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Episode 315

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Today’s Topic – The Chosen Underdog

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• Why Tropes are important
• 5 Favorite Troupes
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

What are your favorite character tropes?

The Real-world Task for the Day

What is your trope?

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Episode 315

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Today’s Topic – The Chosen Underdog

We are now working on episodes again.  While we get going on Season three here is another best of episode 315.

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• Why Tropes are important
• 5 Favorite Troupes
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

What are your favorite character tropes?

The Real-world Task for the Day

What is your trope?

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Episode 315

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Today’s Topic – The world is a darker place

My Mommy passed the day 5/8/2021 a day before Mother’s Day. I still struggle to talk about this. So I want to share my mother and her wisdom one more time with the world from episode 154. You want to learn more about a wonderful mother please check out her obituary.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Are you an orc or an elf today?
• Talk about first memories of worldbuilding.
• Make up other stuff to push the conversation.
• Convert Mother into an orc, No she will always be an Angel

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Spend time with the people you love

The Real-world Task for the Day

Spend time with the people you love. Feel My handprint

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Episode 154

Doris Darlene Ingram’s Obituary

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Today’s Topic Who are the villain we are influenced by the most

Michael and I love villains.  For both of us they define how good a story is. They can elevate a store or even limit a store if they are boring.

Now, this is one of the most difficult podcast we have had to prepare for. It is tough picking your favorite things.  They are apt to change on how you feel that day or the perspective you take looking at the list.

Join Michael and I as we look at our dishonorable mentions. Our favorite three villains as chosen stepping into this episode.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why the dishonorable mentions?
• Special appearance from Mariner
• Michael’s number 3
• Jeffery’s number 3
• Michael’s number 2
• Jeffery’s number 2
• Michael’s number 1
• Jeffery’s number 1

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Tell us your favorite

The Real-world Task for the Day

Become a villain Do Not become a villain, think like a villain when your write

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Today’s Topic Who are the villain we are influenced by the most

Michael and I love villains.  For both of us they define how good a story is. They can elevate a store or even limit a store if they are boring.

Now, this is one of the most difficult podcast we have had to prepare for. It is tough picking your favorite things.  They are apt to change on how you feel that day or the perspective you take looking at the list.

Join Michael and I as we look at our dishonorable mentions. Our favorite three villains as chosen stepping into this episode.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why the dishonorable mentions?
• Special appearance from Mariner
• Michael’s number 3
• Jeffery’s number 3
• Michael’s number 2
• Jeffery’s number 2
• Michael’s number 1
• Jeffery’s number 1

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Tell us your favorite

The Real-world Task for the Day

Become a villain Do Not become a villain, think like a villain when your write

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Today’s Topic They all cannot be Jayne

This was originally episode 288 if you want the complete show notes.

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Podcast Show flow

• What makes a character multidimensional
• This should not be your main character
• When They work
• When they don’t work

Worldbuilding Task

Take a character you love, and cut the depth right out of them

Real world task

Identify one way you need to take better care of yourself. Do one thing every day to get a step closer to achieving it.

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic 5 steps to create great characters great characters

This was originally episode 206. If you want the full show notes please check it out.

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Podcast Show Flow

1. Strong Archetypes
2. Use Quirks to add flavor and uniqueness and develop personality
3. Develop strong motivations think of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
4. Be able to visualize them in your head
5. Use story action to define character,

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a new character follow our advice

The Real-world Task for the Day

Create a character based on you

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Today’s Topic – Let’s Build a new Campaign, part 3

Podcast Show flow

• Character conflict / ensemble
  • Theme:
    • What lines are too far?
    • And is good and bad?
    • Lizard sense of family
  • Why the invasion
    • In search of food
    • You are just a cow
    • The closest island is running out of food
  • High Fantasy
  • The Journey for the Item
    • The Frog hero bob is not of the right class
      • Shamans for war
      • Gender swapping frog
      • What changes the way things are
        • First, contact this time with lizard
      • Climax Choose
        • Finally to change beneath to farm tool power gain
        • Peaceful Pete learns about a family connection to frogs
        • Forged by a god
      • Path to resolution
        • What is the setback for Pete
          • How does he recover
        • What is the setback for Bob
          • How does he recover
        • What happens when Bob gets the item
        • Prove the relationship is key to peace Trident is needed
        • Main story resolution
          • Bob loses all gender and uses the trident to prove the link
          • Peaceful Pete – Holds the Alamo and new shaman follow Pete’s
          • Evil Ed (Lizard Leader) – Exiled with Shaman
          • Silly Shamans() – Exiled with Shaman
        • Side quests and Random scenes stored
        • Character log
        • Player knowledge
      • The next season
        • Characters Details

Worldbuilding Task

Work on your outline

RW  Task

Remember those you love every day

Michael’s Resources

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Podcast Show flow

• Character conflict / ensemble
  • Theme:
    • What lines are too far?
    • And is good and bad?
    • Lizard sense of family
  • Why the invasion
    • In search of food
    • You are just a cow
    • The closest island is running out of food
  • High Fantasy
  • The Journey for the Item
    • The Frog hero bob is not of the right class
      • Shamans for war
      • Gender swapping frog
      • What changes the way things are
        • First, contact this time with lizard
      • Climax Choose
        • Finally to change beneath to farm tool power gain
        • Peaceful Pete learns about a family connection to frogs
        • Forged by a god
      • Path Nenet
    • The next season
      • Characters Details

Worldbuilding Task

Work on your outline

RW  Task

Remember those you love every day

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today’s Topic – Less magic Rules more

Podcast Show flow

• Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
• Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
• Revisiting the frame
  • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
  • Fifth Contact
• Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
• Consider a full story outline
• Revisit your framework and add as needed

Worldbuilding Task

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today’s Topic – Less magic Rules more

Podcast Show flow

• Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
• Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
• Revisiting the frame
  • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
  • Fifth Contact
• Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
• Consider a full story outline
• Revisit your framework and add as needed

Worldbuilding Task

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today’s Topic – Less magic Rules more

Podcast Show flow

• Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
• Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
• Revisiting the frame
  • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
  • Fifth Contact
• Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
• Consider a full story outline
• Revisit your framework and add as needed

Worldbuilding Task

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today’s Topic – Less magic Rules more

Podcast Show flow

• Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
• Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
• Revisiting the frame
  • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
  • Fifth Contact
• Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
• Consider a full story outline
• Revisit your framework and add as needed

Worldbuilding Task

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today’s Topic – Less magic Rules more

Podcast Show flow

• What is world tech
  • As you go culture, race, and state tech
• Framework vs 7 Rules of magic systems
  • Not a system yet
• Where is the magic performed?
  • Anywhere
  • Place of power help
• What can the magic not do or can?
  • Not done by the user
  • Hierarchy of spirits – Ghost, Soul, Nature Spirtes, Wandering Spirits, Guardians, gods, the older ones
  • Other Planer, Cursed or GMO-Free
• When can the magic be performed?
  • Anytime but takes time
  • Can be stored
  • Spirit work better at fix
• Who can perform the magic?
  • Anyone, but someone attuned is the winner
• How is the magic performed?
  • Supernatural
• Why is the form of magic used?
  • Protect yourself from the supernatural and aid yourself in the world

Worldbuilding Task

Create your words

RW  Task

Relax to the Prestige

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Podcast Show Flow

Today’s Topic – Stop over planning

• What is world tech
  • As you go culture, race, and state tech
• Episode 116: The Simple, Succinct Technology Level Method
  • Agriculture
  • Energy
  • Communication
  • Engineering
  • Trades
  • Transportation
  • Cultural
  • Religious
  • Scientific
  • Magic — Not today
• Islands and the exception of agriculture rules
• Where is the tech used?
• Who used the tech?
• What does the tech do?
• When does the technology start?
• How long is the technology important?
• Why is this important?

Worldbuilding Task

Level up your tech

RW  Task

Get out of social media, watch the social dilemma AND TURN OFF EVERY APP NOTIFICATION

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Podcast Show Flow

Today’s Topic – Stop over planning

• Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
• Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
• Why are artifacts important – Spear of Water – Canoe
• My Warning
• Is there a correct order of answering the 6
• Changing or updating results
• Where is the Item
• Who Made the item
• What does the item do
• When was it made
• How was it made
• Why was it made

Worldbuilding Task

Make an artifact

RW  Task

Forge something in steel or plastic

Michael’s Resources

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Podcast Show Flow

Today’s Topic – Stop over planning

• Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
• Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
• The Cyberpunk 2077 complaints sound familiar
  • Transphobic
  • Poor Haitian Star
  • Poor treatment
  • Cultural appropriation
  • Toxic Fan-base
  • Causing Seizures
  • … I will miss many and for that, I apologize
• The Genre is mean to show a punk backlash vs a corporate world where everyone is marginalized… taking the way we marginalized people and expanding it.
• Cyberpunk vs our world
  • Algorithms not implants
  • Influencer vs Followers
  • Marinizing individuals
  • Too much white noise
  • THE TRAFFIC
  • Large corporations us information to try and segment people to buying their products. Smaller corporation try the same to start carving out a niche
• Conclusions
  • NOT CLOSE TO PERFECT
  • It is more than okay to be offended by a cyberpunk setting… dystopian fiction must do this
  • More time is needed to see if the genre was used as a cover to generate buzz
  • Should we want fiction devoid of images that are offensive and is that even possible?
    • Even being offended can be offensive
  • Where is the line been fascination and appropriation?
  • Is a corporation that points to problematic behavior to get attention committing the same problematic behavior?

Worldbuilding Task

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

RW  Task

Consider challenging thoughts in your art

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic – Self-care because we Care about you

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Podcast Show Flow

• Move it or Lose it
  • Physical activity
  • Caring for your body
  • Eating right
• Great Food/Health Documentaries
  • The Game Changers
  • What the Health
  • Fed Up
  • Food Inc
  • Forks over Knives
  • The Magic Pill
  • Rotten
  • Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dying
  • Hungry for Change
• Clean your Mind
  • Positive Self-talk
  • Letting go of Negativity
  • Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

WBT

Use your clear mind to create a sassy world

RW  Task

Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

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Today’s Topic – Stop over planning

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is the idea of Minimumal Viable Planning (MV Planning)
  • Inspires my visions of worldbuilding, but works with much more
• Goal of MV Planning
  • Show the needed roadway to get something done
• Tools You need
  • The Five Steps to Achieve your goals – Brendon Burchard
    • This might take research
    • Sample 5 Goals to Selling Courses Online
      • Curriculum
      • Find a message for an audience
      • Beta Launch Course
      • Course Launch
      • Evergreen Launch
    • Minimize your life focusing on what is important
      • Fear of the Theory of 4 Burners James Clear
      • Reducing your decision
      • Outsource As You can
    • Budget for time and money
  • What you need to do
    • Outline what you need to get each of the five things
      • Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
    • Rate on a scale of 1-10 how proficient your are each thing your need
      • Hint if you do not know where to start then your skill is 1
    • Turn your outline into a list
      • Asana or Trello work great
    • Look at the first Item. Can you do the work to achieve it. If you can do it
      • Only learn what you need to get the next task done
      • Do the work as you are learning.
      • Finish the other learning later. Move on to the next task when you finish

WBT

MVP your fantasy world

RW  Task

MVP your next home project.

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Today’s Topic – You have got to tell them they are making us eat frog legs

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Podcast Show Flow

• Places
  • Different Top/down hard vs soft
  • What are the features we want to explore in really not water world
  • Where do they live?
  • Who are they?
  • When are they?
  • How Do they live?
  • Why do they exist?
  • Once per race

WBT

Bring forth fictional life

RW  Task

MVP or nothing

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Today’s Topic – We’ll sea ya soon matie

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Podcast Show Flow

• Places
  • Planet Side first not space
  • Wind and currents
    • Thermo vs Surface
  • Lack of continents
  • Mountains or lack thereof
    • Where is it?
    • What happens there?
    • When is it important?
    • How is it used?
    • Why did it start being used?

WBT

Right a story about the weather

RW  Task

Minimal Viable Planning

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Today’s Topic – Well start one today

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Podcast Show Flow

• Spoiler warning (At Least minor character developing)
• WTF happened (Short form)
  • Genocide accusations are overblown from what we know
  • But he was eating other sentient beings
• What did we learn?
  • Hunger issues for the pair
  • Baby Yoda is noooo vegan
  • The Mandalorian is a horrible parent… so is the passenger
• Let’s be clear most content about this is clickbait… except for ours
• X reasons it is okay
  • Protagonist do not have to be good (even if they are cute)
  • Characters learn best through failure… like all people
  • All people act out of character
• As you develop the “People” of your your keep this in mind
• Remember if you have impact with your characters and stories, you will be called out for it. And it is okay.

WBT

Binge the Mandalorian today

RW  Task

Go the undercroft and judge baby Yoda!

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Today’s Topic – Well start one today

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Podcast Show Flow

• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore -Up to user
    • A Small Advance island vs larger primitive power
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission Free and Shareable world
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know 0
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
    • Smaller Island
    • Invaders
    • 2 people
    • 2 Magic types
    • Geographic
      • Small
      • Currents
      • wind
      • Volcanos
      • reef
    • Tech
      • Early gunpowder
    • Transportation
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Advanced Island, Invaders, and Sea World
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project – Open World
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

WBT

Start a new world or time in the world

RW  Task

Learn to hang while social distancing https://www.caringbridge.org/resources/how-to-support-loved-ones-during-covid-19/

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Today’s Topic – Create a frame and starting

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Podcast Show Flow

• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
• Four Contact
  • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
  • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
• Fifth Contact
  • Launch your Project
  • Flesh out the rest on demand

Worldbuilder’s Task

Create a document and store your contacts?

Try using framework perspectives and this list to look at your world. Maybe you need to stop building something you are spending too much time on. Maybe you need to start building in another area of your world.

Realworld Task

Ask a creative friend for feedback

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Today’s Topic – The other starting place

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Podcast Show Flow

• Bottom-Up Worldbuilding – From Inspiration to Perspiration
  • Identify the inspiring concept
  • Why is it interesting to me?
  • How can I make this interesting/inspiring to others?
  • WHAT is it that I want to say?
  • Find the nouns that answer my questions
• The six questions that create my nouns
  • Where are we? (Places)
  • How does it relate to us? (Rules)
  • When are we? (Time)
  • Who is there? (Races)
  • What is there? (Props)
  • What are they doing? (Cultures)
• The nouns I need
  • Places
  • Time
  • Races
  • Props
  • Cultures
  • Rules

Worldbuilder’s Task

Write a one-page story using the Bottom-Up approach to worldbuilding?

Realworld Task

Go enjoy the outdoors before it gets too cold!

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Today’s Topic – As you wish

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Podcast Show Flow

• 5 Things to start worldbuilding

1. 1. Storing what you have done
   2. Finding your Frames
   3. Identify Deviations
   4. Creating a worldbuilding inventory
   5. Creating a project for your world

• Remember the Electrum rule of worldbuilding
• Remember, every rule has an exception
• Also, remember rule six
• There is no rule six

Worldbuilder’s Task

Rules 7 of worldbuilding is rule six has no exceptions

Realworld Task

Relax with some Monty Python

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Today’s Topic – As you wish

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Podcast Show Flow

• Knowing yourself in 4 points
• Free thinking Scale
  • Are you a curmudgeon to childish
• Worldbuilding Type
  • Top Down
  • Bottom up
  • Hybrid
• How you like your worlds Ep 138
  • Realistic
  • Naturalistic
  • Mosaic
  • Fantastic
• Scale of Purpose
  • World to Story only

Worldbuilder’s Task

What type of worldbuilder are you?

Realworld Task

What kind of worldbuilder do you wish you could be?

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Today’s Topic – As you wish

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Podcast Show Flow

• Knowing yourself in 4 points
• Free thinking Scale
  • Are you a curmudgeon to childish
• Worldbuilding Type
  • Top Down
  • Bottom up
  • Hybrid
• How you like your worlds Ep 138
  • Realistic
  • Naturalistic
  • Mosaic
  • Fantastic
• Scale of Purpose
  • World to Story only

Worldbuilder’s Task

What type of worldbuilder are you?

Realworld Task

What kind of worldbuilder do you wish you could be?

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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Podcast Show Flow

• We are human
• Self-loathing is our worst enemy
• Say sorry when you have to. forgive yourself. get back to living fully – Brendon Burchard
• Accept what is and what isn’t, but do not make those things right or wrong. They just are. They just exist.
• Not everyone is going to like you…and that’s okay.

Worldbuilder’s Task

Create a character of yourself, and make them the hero

Realworld Task

Retrain yourself for self-respect

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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Podcast Show Flow

• Basic Review
• How is Ralphie A worldbuilder
• What are the worldbuilding elements in the story (Nouns)
• Jeff’s childhood worldbuilding moment Who in the world is Harry?… Hairy?
• Michael worldbuilding moments Werewolf tag game

Worldbuilder’s Task

Think back to worldbuilding you did as a child? What were some of your Favorites?

Realworld Task

Share your best stories with family/friend/undercroft

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Today’s Topic – Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is worldbuilding?
  • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
  • A set of nouns we use to do something
• Not Just for Genre Fiction
  • Understanding the World
  • Backbone for Stories
  • 5 Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder
• desire to be understood
• Before there is science there is worldbuilding
  • Fill in gaps of understanding
• Educational Curiosity
• Making Play Social
• Fictional
  • From Primal to sophisticated worldbuilding

Worldbuilder’s Task

Play with objects around the house. Make a setting, names, and rules for interaction

Cooler, Couch, and Beer Basket

Realworld Task

Share the Story in the Undercroft

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic – With a rouge one yell more more more

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is worldbuilding?
• Has my view changed
• Episode 333 Season 2 What Would You Do
• Episodes focused on the Spiral of learning
• What you know
• Theory
• Do
• Stories focused on the point of the episode
• Season one Topic Worldbuilding Basics
• What is worldbuilding(2020)? (The nouns of your World)
  • People
  • Place
  • Thing
  • Idea
  • Action
  • Quality

Worldbuilder’s Task

Build a new world X2

Realworld Task

Relisten to the first 340 episodes, STAT

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Today’s Topic –  The Bad, Ugly, and Good about lying to yourself

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Podcast Show Flow

Lying to yourself is not all bad

• The bad
  • Danger of entitlement
  • Self- Sabotaging
  • Can cause errors in decision making
• When
  • The emotions, good or bad, are absolute
    • I must win this time
    • If I write a book everyone will hate me
  • cognitive dissonance
  • To protect yourself (Not always good)
• The good
  • The power in your word
  • Alerts you to faulty thinking
• How to use it to your advantage
  • Tell yourself you are good at it?
  • Create Triggers to replace the sick up feeling with excitement

Worldbuilder’s Task

Create a conman character to bilk you out of money. If you ever meet someone like this character avoid them

Realworld Task

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Today’s Topic – With a rouge one yell more more more

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Podcast Show Flow

• Shout Out
• Star Wars
  • Original
  • Prequel
  • Sequel
  • TV
  • Solo movie
  • Rouge One
• Rouge One the best (Derivative)
  • A fathers love for Erso
  • Really shows the war aspect of Star Wars
  • Saw
  • Puts the War into Star Wars

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Today’s Topic – An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere

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Podcast Show Flow

Politics are a part of your life and not just the annoying politicians and activist on twitter.

Divisions in groups allow for readers to draw connections

Things that are like our world

Highlights the differences

Politics are about control

Dos

• Use to show a person’s place in society
• Address themes in your work
• The battle between the individual/societal good

Don’ts

• Water Down into memes
  • The meme is cultural information and a theme is a value associated with the idea
• Don’t Preach / Show
• Don’t talk about the moment

Worldbuilding Task

Create a world twitter to annoy your characters

Real-World Task

Learn proper cleaning techniques to help you feel clean after writing politics and keeps you safe from viruses.

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Today’s Topic – Non-linear timekeeping in worldbuilding and fiction

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Podcast Show Flow

• Inspired by Wheel of Time and a power outage
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• Time is more like a river than we give it credit
  • It digs it way ahead through the path of least resistance
  • Never stops eroding
  • Can seem to temporarily defy even gravity… but still loses
  • The destruction can be shift
• A brewing battle of advanced civilizations 12,000 years ago
• The human strength of memory
• Concept in Mythology

Worldbuilding Task

Create your own pockets

Real-World Task

Seize Control of Space and Time

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Today’s Topic – Long live the Soap Operas

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is a soap opera?
  • a television or radio drama series dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.
• Have Soap operas taken over genre fiction?
  • The first one I noticed Buffy the Vampire TV Show
    • Everything with a Vampire all Whedon TV
  • All CW SciFi and Supernatural
  • Lost
  • Battle Star Galactica
• Is it by default good or bad?
• Are all long stories ultimately going to move in this route?

Worldbuilding Task

Days of your Character’s Lives

Real-World Task

Virtual Volunteering During The COVID-19 Crisis

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The Teaser

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Today’s Topic – Welcome J.B. to the forge

A stellar student in high school and college, Mr. Lion always had a knack for creative and professional writing. Those traits would come in handy as he spent most of his adult years a project manager, travelling the world implementing transit technology.

During this time, he never stopped writing short stories which he kept in several notebooks over a span of 15 years. The primary theme of these stories culminated from a simple game he would play with his two sons to pass the time. The game centered around three different societies, each one trying to outmaneuver one another for control of the universe.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Tell us about your latest work?
• How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
• When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
• Tell a STORY about how you knew you love building worlds.
• What was your “I can” experience?
• Tell a STORY about it.
• Biggest achievement to date?
• Tell a STORY of your biggest achievement to date.
• When you learned of it.
• What was its impact on your progress as an author and a worldbuilder?
• What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
• Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round: (All fast answers)

• What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
• Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
• What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
• What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
• What tool(s) could you not work without?
• What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
• If you ended up in the (a) world you created.  What would be the first thing you would do?  (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

Worldbuilding Task

Check out more with JB Lion, Twitter, or Instagram

Real-World Task

Check out more with JB Lion, Twitter, or Instagram

Michael’s Resources

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The Teaser

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Today’s Topic –  From one season to Multiple Seasons

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Podcast Show Flow

• Based on the idea of Small Teaching by James Lang
• Just starting the planning
• Season based on Worldbuilding Topic
  • Theory
  • How-to
  • Related Media
  • Life and mindset support to aid the topic

Worldbuilding Task

Rework all your plans again

Real-World Task

Join the undercroft and help up shape the future

Michael’s Resources

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The Teaser

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Today’s Topic –  Turning Video games into video

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Podcast Show Flow

• Deep apology
• Motivation and its interaction with time management
  • 66 days to get a new habit
• Michaels Tips

Worldbuilding Task

Start a new habit

Real-World Task

Join the undercroft to share your sympathy with Michael for having this dumped on him half recorded at the time of recording

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The Teaser

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Today’s Topic –  Turning Video games into video

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Podcast Show Flow

• The news
  • Amazon, Westworld Creators, Bethesda Studios
• The good
  • A recent effort like the Witcher
  • Rich world
  • Dark the different levels of humor
• The Bad
  • The history of Video games to movies. mortal Kombat
  • 76
• The ugly
  • The wart on my…
  • The Mario movie

Worldbuilding Task

How have you decided to work with diversity in your world… or not

Real-World Task

Join the undercroft to share your sympathy with Michael for having this dumped on him half recorded at the time of recording

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The Teaser

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Today’s Topic –  Truth can lead to better fiction

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Podcast Show Flow

• The Experiment
• Quick background
• The Choice
• The Reason
• Why it was wrong
  • TTRPG vs Story
• The Butterfly Moth Effect
• The Double Down
• The Self beat
• Michael
  • Moments where stories have lost you because of lack of description
  • Was Jeff wrong and was it understandable or silly
  • Have you witnessed the Moth Effect in Stories, give examples?
  • Parting shots and words of encouragement.

Worldbuilding Task

How have you decided to work with diversity in your world… or not

Real-World Task

Join the undercroft to share your sympathy with Michael for having this dumped on him half recorded at the time of recording

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic –  Truth can lead to better fiction

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Podcast Show Flow

• Inspiration from Curiosity Stream Bright on, “Fire Ant Invasion”
• Zombie Fly!!!
• Let the battle of the necromancers begin
• Who is our Natural foe of the Ants
• Character
• Aeskrii Ambassador
• A Lost Tribe United of Aeskrii
• Tribal used
• “Mummification” of bodies preserving and sealing it until it is needed”

Worldbuilding Task

Overrun a world or 2 with the undead

Real-World Task

Avoid the practice of necromancy

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Today’s Topic –  The true path to relaxing

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why do you need to know the true path to your relaxation?
  • More Creative
  • More confident
  • More decisive
  • Happier
• The problem with not knowing your true path
  • Attempts to relaxation leads to guilt. Guilt to fear and fear leads to the dark side
  • Or really escapism which leads to Anxiety and then to Burnout
• What is the true path to relaxation
  • which future self excites you
  • Living Above your μ (Mu) your X Bar
  • Spending time actively visualizing it every day
  • Taking a new step towards it.

Worldbuilding Task

Create a story for a group to get stuck and see how they fix it

Real-World Task

Look for new solutions to problems plaguing you

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic –  Breaking writer’s block

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Podcast Show Flow

• And not for something completely different.
• Brainstorm out with Why I am not writing freewriting
• Change your plan
• Worldbuild something not needed
• Walk out in nature
• Talk the day off

Worldbuilding Task

Create a story for a group to get stuck and see how they fix it

Real-World Task

Look for new solutions to problems plaguing you

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic –  BIG CHARACTERS!!!!

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Podcast Show Flow

• There is no formula
• Think of the cast as a whole
• What your story needs
  • Solo or Ensemble
  • Create character before you create you character
• Remember if they do not make the story better, they should not be in the cast
• Types of characters you need
  • Protagonist
  • Antagonist
  • Companions
  • Side Characters
• Job of character
  • Love Interest
  • Foil
  • Family
  • Mentor
  • Extra
  • Other tropes
• Twist or two
• Questions to ask
  • Can characters merge
  • Will people get lost in the cast

Worldbuilding Task

What is a good cast for your story

Real-World Task

Run your cast past a friend or someone you can trust

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Episode 310 Let’s form a game story

1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268

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Today’s Topic –  Let’s Build the Before the Story, part 2

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is your message? Theme or sub-text (this could be the whole show really)
  • Examples: Dune: Struggle, Wonderland/Oz : Wonder and escapism
• Physical characteristics of your world can(should?) be metaphors for the conflicts of the characters within it
• Re-examine. Why do you want the world to be a certain way? Does is align with the story/message you are trying to tell?
• Change what needs to. This does not mean strapping a bunch of hard-worked worldbuilding, it could simply be a matter of changing a reason for things to be the way they are. Re-framing is a powerful tool in worldbuilding and in life. Broken wine glass story

Worldbuilding Task

Create a story within a story

Real-World Task

Share something you have learned or done because of the pandemic

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Episode 310 Let’s form a game story

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Today’s Topic –  Let’s Build the Before the Story, part 2

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Podcast Show Flow

• The Basics of the story
• A story of Before the Story (BS)
• WE need the elements of the story.
  • Before the Story (BS)
  • The Incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • After The Story (AS)
• What We know
• Characters we need
• The Same structure for the BS,
• What is the family dynamic? The BS of the BS
  • Father and/VS Mother
• The 1^st incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • The After story (Leads the character to the setting for the Major Plot incident)

Worldbuilding Task

Create a story within a story

Real-World Task

Share something you have learned or done because of the pandemic

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Episode 310 Let’s form a game story

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Today’s Topic –  Let’s Build the Before the Story, part 2

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Podcast Show Flow

• The Basics of the story
• A story of Before the Story (BS)
• WE need the elements of the story.
  • Before the Story (BS)
  • The Incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • After The Story (AS)
• What We know
• Characters we need
• The Same structure for the BS,
• What is the family dynamic? The BS of the BS
  • Father and/VS Mother
• The 1^st incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • The After story (Leads the character to the setting for the Major Plot incident)

Worldbuilding Task

Create a story within a story

Real-World Task

Share something you have learned or done because of the pandemic

Michael’s Resources

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Episode 310 Let’s form a game story

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Today’s Topic –  Let’s Build the Before the Story

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Podcast Show Flow

• The Basics of the story
• A story of Before the Story (BS)
• WE need the elements of the story.
  • Before the Story (BS)
  • The Incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • After The Story (AS)
• What We know
• Characters we need
• The Same structure for the BS,
• What is the family dynamic? The BS of the BS
  • Father and/VS Mother
• The 1^st incident
  • The Strike
  • The Fallout
  • The Run
  • The After story (Leads the character to the setting for the Major Plot incident)

Worldbuilding Task

Listen to part 2

Real-World Task

Listen to part 2

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Today’s Topic –  Forget those details and build

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Podcast Show Flow

• You want to share your world without being an encyclopedia.
  • Curious Characters
  • Build groups up with diversity in mind
  • Have big day coming up
  • Fish(es) out of water
  • Xenophobia and Xenophilia
  • Bards and wizards
  • Other Elders
  • Stories (overheard at taverns)

Worldbuilding Task

Create some good excuses

Real-World Task

Give us your tips

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Today’s Topic –  Your team never misses the snakes

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Podcast Show Flow

• This week on Worldbuilding Team
• Worldbuilding it great
  • but we focus on the large
  • or the smaller
  • they are both too big
• Details create the iconic love
• Moments, connections, even phrases
• Iconic details that make stories memorable
  • I Am Spartacus
  • When henry meet sally, “I will have what she is having”
  • I AM YOUR FATHER
  • Birth of the Alien
  • He slimed me
  • As you wish

Worldbuilding Task

Make a story with your family, or friends online

DeScriptors, or Online Roll20

Real-World Task

Keep flatting the curve

Michael’s Resources

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic –  You are missing the forest and team

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Podcast Show Flow

• This week on Worldbuilding Team
• Worldbuilding it great
  • but we focus on the large
  • or the smaller
  • they are both too big
• Details create the iconic love
• Moments, connections, even phrases
• Iconic details that make stories memorable
  • I Am Spartacus
  • When henry meet sally, “I will have what she is having”
  • I AM YOUR FATHER
  • Birth of the Alien
  • He slimed me
  • As you wish

Worldbuilding Task

Make a story with your family, or friends online

DeScriptors, or Online Roll20

Real-World Task

Keep flatting the curve

Michael’s Resources

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic – Stop with a life you hate

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Podcast Show Flow

• What do we consider work
• What is not work
• What time do you have?
• Fear and unknown
• What can you do to fix it
  • Talking to your boss
  • Rebalance home
  • Plan an exit
  • Leaving your Job

Worldbuilding Task

Build a new job for a protagonist.

Real-World Task

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic – Our Magic overlord. Clark Rowenson

When he is not winning awards as an author, a Chemical Engineer by day, dark overlord of magic by night. We are pleased to introduce you to the magic man himself C. R. Rowenson.

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Podcast Show Flow

Main Feature: (A Conversation about these topics)

• Tell us about your latest work?
• How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
• When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
• Tell a STORY about how you knew you love building worlds.
• What was your “I can” experience?
• Tell a STORY about it.
• Biggest achievement to date?
• Tell a STORY of your biggest achievement to date.
• When you learned of it.
• What was its impact on your progress as an author and a worldbuilder?
• What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
• Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round: (All fast answers)

• What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
• Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
• What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
• What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
• What tool(s) could you not work without?
• What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
• If you ended up in the (a) world you created.  What would be the first thing you would do?  (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

Wrap up:

• Thank you so much for letting us interviews you today.
• How can people learn more about you?
• Facebook
• Reddit

Worldbuilding Task

Join Clarks Newsletter

Real-World Task

Join Clarks Newsletter

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic – Lookout for the underdog

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why Tropes are important
• The chosen one
• The Mentor
• Lovable Rogue
• Elders
• Fish out of Water
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

Worldbuilding Task

What are your favorite characters tropes?

Real-World Task

What is your trope?

Michael’s Resources

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic – Lookout for the underdog

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why Tropes are important
• The chosen one
• The Mentor
• Lovable Rogue
• Elders
• Fish out of Water
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

Worldbuilding Task

What are your favorite characters tropes?

Real-World Task

What is your trope?

Michael’s Resources

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Characters by tv Tropes

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Today’s Topic – Stop working so much and relax

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is a Relaxation Accord
• Who are the parties involved?
• Why is according important vs escapism
• My Steps to the accord
  • The parties show review their weekly schedules
  • Identify a time that each person can have to do stuff
    • Worktime and Hobby Time
  • Have a shared schedule to remember
  • Escape clause
  • Get a win/win deal

Worldbuilding Task

Identify if you need an accord

Real-World Task

Let us know how it works out at Facebook

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Time Budget

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Today’s Topic – Why I like a routine for getting through writer’s block

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Podcast Show Flow

• Music that I love, but do not feel the need to sing.
• Review the outline and make changes
• 10 Minute Break – Get the blood flowing
• Non-distracting environment
• Non- distracting mind
  • Is there something important distracting me?
  • Make a note and move on
• and a shower
• Just write for 15 more minutes. Anything that comes to mind.
• Take a notebook to bed End the process for the day.

Worldbuilding Task

Create a routine that works for you

Real-World Task

Share your routine with us.

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Today’s Topic – Check yourself before you wreck yourself

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Podcast Show Flow

• Overview needs for indie JRPG game
• Baurhdrakkeim
  • 7 Tribes – Lutteim, Ichluttiem, Äbunluttiem, Bhalfqareim, Tracchuliem, Veintraccqariem, Hirreim
• Ordassa
  • Location
  • Status Names
  • Duke in charge of the county
• Maps
  • Travel map(s)
  • County overview
  • 8 Community maps –
    • Lichenniczeedohar (Green Lake City, Location of (Mainzphar)
    • Berpqenololhumphar – Orc Danger Castle
    • Player home (Lutteim)
    • Ichluttiem home
    • Äbunluttiem home
    • Bhalfqareim home
    • Tracchuliem home
    • Veintraccqariem home
    • Hirreim home
    • Lichenniczeedfamïmas Green lake islands
  • Classes
    • Warrior Class per tribe
    • Poet (Rouge)
    • Holy magic
    • Carver Magic
  • Characters

Worldbuilding Task

Scene-by-scene – find your worldbuilding needs

Real-World Task

Relax and have some fun

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Today’s Topic – Check yourself before you wreck yourself

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Podcast Show Flow

• This takes for granted you are creative
• Why we are the biggest problem in our creative endeavors.
• Three things that you need to achieve more
  • Ambition
  • Action
  • Attitude
• Not a one-time fix, it is about balance and awareness

Worldbuilding Task

Find out where you stand with the 3 As and make a change

Real-World Task

Go NVTS

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Today’s Topic – Finding the basic building blocks of my new story

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Podcast Show Flow

• What I know
  • Background
  • 1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268
• Before the Story (BS)
• The Incident
• The Strike
• The Fallout
• The Run
• After The Story (AS)

Worldbuilding Task

Write a basic story

Real-World Task

Self-love

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Episode 268 Brainstorming video game content

1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268

Episode 307 Story at the basics

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Today’s Topic – Why do you think 1/1?

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why
  1. Families are not just around in the holidays.
• What are the problems
  1. What if the family does not support my dreams?
  2. Stopping the family drama
  3. What to do when you think your toddler or infant is out to get you?
     • Learning, lack of impulse control and hormones raging.

• How do I let go?
  1. Let your kids be a kid, redirect them. They are not out to get you.
  2. Manage yourself
  3. Get your sleep (7-9) hours
  4. Transition
  5. Release meditation

Worldbuilding Task

Come up with a fictional New Year holiday

Real-World Task

Commit to improving yourself, do it for 60 days

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9 New Year’s Traditions From Cultures Around The World

April Fools’ Day: Origin and History

The Isaiah Show

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Finding the basic building blocks of stories

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why
  1. Families are not just around in the holidays.
• What are the problems
  1. What if the family does not support my dreams?
  2. Stopping the family drama
  3. What to do when you think your toddler or infant are out to get you?
     • Learning, lack of impulse control, and hormones raging.

• How do I let go?
  1. Let your kids be a kids, redirect them. They are not out to get you.
  2. Manage yourself
  3. Get your sleep (7-9) hours
  4. Transition
  5. Release meditation

Worldbuilding Task

Worldbuild or create when your are stressed or tired

Real-World Task

The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive by Brendon Buchard (Amazon Link)

Bonus Book for parents: No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame by Janet Landsbury (Amazon Link)

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The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

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Today’s Topic – Self-care because we Care about you

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Podcast Show Flow

• Move it or Lose it
  • Physical activity
  • Caring for your body
  • Eating right
• Great Food/Health Documentaries
  • The Game Changers
  • What the Health
  • Fed Up
  • Food Inc
  • Forks over Knives
  • The Magic Pill
  • Rotten
  • Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dying
  • Hungry for Change
• Clean your Mind
  • Positive Self-talk
  • Letting go of Negativity
  • Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

WBT

Use your clear mind to create a sassy world

RW  Task

Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

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Were alive Podcast

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Finding the basic building blocks of stories

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why is it important to know what a story really is?
• What a story is not?
  • A structure
  • Theme or meme
  • Outline
  • A Goal
  • Elements (Setting, Characters, Plot, Conflict, Theme, Point-of-view, Tone, Style)
  • This list can go on forever.
• A story is an explanation of an event (Conflict) that is exchanged between people.
  • You need to explain important points before and give the resolution to help the other people satisfaction that the story is complete
• Jeff’s 6 Steps to a complete story
  1. Before the Story (BS)
  2. The Incident
  3. The Strike
  4. The Fallout
  5. The Run
  6. After The Story (AS)
• If you want a longer story repeat steps 3 and 4
• Character arcs should be this structure inside if your story
• Subplots should follow steps 2-5

Worldbuilding Task

Write a basic story

Real-World Task

Look at your world and create a story to host your setting

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Fundamentals of Story Structure

8 Elements of a Story Explained

The Five Essential Elements Of A Story

Parts of a Story: The 11 Essential Story Elements You Need to Get Right

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oday’s Topic – a horrible job being outsourced to automation

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Podcast Show Flow

• A Fantasy Robot?
  • Golems
    • Iron Golem
  • Automaton
    • Dwemer Automaton
  • Clockwork
    • Hugo
  • What would the purpose of it?
    • Story / Theme
  • What is our robot?
  • Who made it?
  • Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Primary Material
  • How does it function
  • Is it charged? Does it need to recharge
  • Back Story fun

Worldbuilding Task

Create your fictional fantasy robot?

Real-World Task

Summon the power of the old gods and manufacture your fictional automaton to give away some Christmas cheer.

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Today’s Topic – a horrible job being outsourced to automation

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Podcast Show Flow

• A Fantasy Robot?
  • Golems
    • Iron Golem
  • Automaton
    • Dwemer Automaton
  • Clockwork
    • Hugo
  • What would the purpose of it?
    • Story / Theme
  • What is our robot?
  • Who made it?
  • Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Primary Material
  • How does it function
  • Is it charged? Does it need to recharge
  • Back Story fun

Worldbuilding Task

Wait for part 2

Real-World Task

Wait for part 2

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic – Fer Realz

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Podcast Show Flow

• Why the Death
• The Solution
• The topics of the Undercroft
  • Worldbuilding
  • Storytelling
  • Life
• Episode types
  • Worldbuilding Basics
  • Worldbuilding Let’s Build
  • Worldbuilding Nerd Up
  • Worldbuilding In the Wild
  • Storytelling Mechanics
  • Storytelling Writer Block
  • Storytelling Characters
  • Storytelling Let’s Build
  • Life Education
  • Life Inspiration
  • Life Relax
  • Life Family

Worldbuilding Task

Let us know if you want more or less of something

Real-World Task

Join the undercroft, let us know what we are missing or… what we should eat

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Today’s Topic – They might be Giants, and what are we going to do if they are?

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Podcast Show Flow

• What is a legend?
• Are they based on reality?
• How core is the belief or stories?
• What happens if they meet the thing that exists?
• What happens if they do not live up to expectations?

Worldbuilding Task

Make a legendary creature called Michael.

Real-World Task

Finish `NaNoWriMo then prepare for the holidays while layering.

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Real-Life Zombies

Zombie studies: The scientists taking the living dead seriously

Episode 79: Ant Zombie Over Lords

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Today’s Topic – The Really Real Walking Dead

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Podcast Show Flow

1. Inspired by a Yahoo! News Article,
   1. Zombie studies: The scientists taking the living dead seriously
2. Thank you Scientific American… Basically Episode 79 is real
   1. Real-Life Zombies
   2. Zombie Carpenter Ants
3. What is a zombie?
   1. “someone who moves around as if unconscious and being controlled by someone else:” – Cambridge
4. Google Scholar 77,900
5. Types of Zombies
   1. Undead Zombies
   2. Magic Zombies
   3. Parasite Zombies – Warm Bodies
   4. Pathogen Zombies
   5. Drug Zombies
   6. Virus Zombies (Tech Zombies)
   7. Media Zombies
   8. Political Zombies
   9. Worker Zombie
   10. Electric Zombie / Science Zombie

Worldbuilding Task

Eat brains

Real-World Task

What kind of gamer 4 Types Of Gamers And Learner Engagement?

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Real-Life Zombies

Zombie studies: The scientists taking the living dead seriously

Episode 79: Ant Zombie Over Lords

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Today’s Topic – Ignorance will Destroy us… again

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Podcast Show Flow

1. #4: Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
2. #5: Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.
3. #1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
4. #7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

Worldbuilding Task

Follow Emma Coats on Twitter if you

Real-World Task

Join the Facebook Worldbuilder’s Community

Michael’s Resources

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The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar

Emma Coats on Twitter

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Today’s Topic – Ignorance will Destroy us… again

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Podcast Show flow

• What happened Movie/ and what we think
• Worldbuilding Problems
• Story Flaws

Worldbuilding Task

And the movie at our affiliate link in Amazon Copycat

Real-World Task

Call the people you love

Michael’s Resources

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Reign of Fire on Amazon (Affiliate Link)

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Today’s Topic –  What we want to see and play

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Podcast Show flow

• 10x the cast
• Hijacking the story and Ham fisting the story
• Avoiding conflict

Worldbuilding Task

Watch all the videos on Critical Drinker, Screen Rant / Pitch Meeting, and Trope Talk: Mary Sue from Overly Sarcastic Productions

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Real-World Task

Call the people you love

Michael’s Resources

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Today’s Topic –  What we want to see and play

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Podcast Show flow

• Because the plot needs it
• Character Kidnapping (Lost to Microphone fail)
• Mary Sue even if(Lost to Microphone fail)

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Today’s Topic –  What we want to see and play

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Podcast Show flow

• Books
  • The Testaments
• Games
  • Ghost Recon
  • Episode 285 Bloodlines 2! The blood is life. https://gardul.com/blog/episode-285-bloodlines-2-the-blood-is-life/
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • The outer worlds
  • Mount and Blade II
  • Baldur’s gate 3
  • Watch Dogs: Legion
• Movies or TV
  • The Witcher
  • The Wheel of Time
  • The Cursed (Updated King Arthurian)
  • Dune
  • Many more

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Podcast Show flow

• Cultural Believes and Traits
• How the writing works.
•  What the religion looks like
• Geography / Weather
  • Materials for building and
• Types of clothing
  • Materials
  • Colors
  • Clasp
• Accessories
• Architecture
  • Inspiration
  • Important Structures
  • Type of materials
• Arts
• Based on materials
• Stone
• Wood and weeds
• Mud
• Metals
• Pigments and Paints
• Common goods
• The Mouth

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Podcast Show flow

• The Ef or Tos Stereotypes
• Appearance
• Traits
• Limitations

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