Fortress Fiction

How Can I Weave a Universe? – 2022-09-30 |SOE 1


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WIP

What is the status of my current projects: progress made, length of time on the backburner?

Active

Grobug Series – Next actions to publish: make text descriptions and thumbnail sketched for all 32 pages. I think I am on the 4th draft of the manuscript

Back Burner

MTM – Breastfeeding Book for big brothers and sisters

MTM –Next actions to publish: make text descriptions and thumbnail sketched for all 32 pages

Fantasy Dragon Book – Manuscript may need revision. On hold

Completed Works

What did I accomplish this week as a storyteller?

No writing this week

No drawings this week

I analyzed the following shows:

Avataro Sentai Donbrothers 30 Analysis – Is This Show Stupid or Brilliant? |SSS 030

Fuuto PI 09 Analysis – Can a Broken Memory Work? |HB09

Kamen Rider Geats 04 Analysis – When Does Failure Start?

Lessons Learned

What did I learn from the world of story this week?

  • Do not tie yourself so tightly to the format of your genre that it becomes stifling. Entertainment is more important than form. At least they need to be balanced. [Fuuto PI 09]

  • As long as the message is naturally coming from the setting, characters and plot, even a cheesy message like “you have to give it your all in life” can come off as relevant, cool and a little inspiring. Takahashi used a battle royale, a nihilistic young man and a young woman being abused by her mother to convey that [Geats 04]

  • Toshiki Inoue is showing me there is a fine line between writing a subversive story and one that is a fresh and novel approach to the genre or subject matter. [Donbrothers 30]

Fabula Ex Machina

Part brainstorm, part drafting out loud.

The idea:

What if there were guardian angels in the form of magical talking bugs sent out from Heaven to help kids?

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Fortress FictionBy MJ Munoz