Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we celebrate all the things we do while seated. I'm your host, E, here with my co-host, Chad Lusky, and we are working on a collaborative effort. It's gonna be a novel, tentatively, called Planet Caravan. A lot of these streams is just us writing. So if you wanna write along with us, please feel free to do so. We will also be talking our way through any issues that pop up, any plot changes, any of that stuff. So as we work along, you're gonna hear a lot of that. This is episode nine, I think. Yeah, episode nine, Noveling Intensifies. Anyways, I'm loving the challenge of having to name these things something different every day. Comments, all of them. Anyways, first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go through and I'm gonna read what Chad, I'll share my screen so you guys can read what Chad has done. Hi, he is in the process of blending and rewriting a chapter I wrote called Coke and a Smile. You can see all my stuff down here that he's been incorporating throughout. And that's pretty much what we've been doing so far. It kind of fell into that easy routine. I've been writing ahead, he's been cleaning up. Good morning, Kami, how are you doing? Deliriously talented. Kami. Deliriously talented, gentlemen. Kami pops into my streams every now and again, man. Kami's awesome. Yeah, I know. She comes in every now and again, I'm always happy to see her. She gave me my first little-known fact. She gave me my first copy, hardcover copy of the Bachman books and I got to sit right about. Oh, wow. Yeah, I did a video on the Bachman books and for the longest time I only had the paper back.  And I was like, I've been looking for a first edition, even if it's not a first edition, it can be a book club edition. I just want a hardcover for my shelf, right? And Kami hit me up and said, hey, I'm gonna send you something. And that's what she sent me.  And since then I've found like three or four other ones, either the same one or the one, the UK version. And I've sent them off to everyone. I've kept the one Kami sent me, but I've sent all the rest of them off because paying it forward and whatnot. But as soon as it never fails, if I'm hunting something in the wild and I don't come across it forever, then either I find it or someone sends it to me, I end up finding it over and over and over again after that. I call it the PT Cruiser Paradox. I never saw a blue PT Cruiser before I bought one. I don't know what the hell that's up with that, but I know it's just experience, altered perception. But at the same time, when you have something, you see it everywhere. When you don't, you just kind of out of sight of it. Yeah, yeah. But yes. I liken it to when you get your heart broken, you're no longer with this chick anymore. You see her car fricking everywhere in town. Yeah. Anyway, I'm doing fantastic, Kami. Thanks for asking. I hope you're doing well too. It's funny when you're not looking, there it is. Yep, it makes me so happy that you kept mine though. Oh, of course, definitely. Anytime anyone sends me, I have stuff from people that did me so dirty that I never want to like even hear their name mentioned again, but I still have that item because it reminds me of the good times, you know? So I keep everything. I'm a bit of a hoarder when it comes to gifts and things like things of that nature. If someone gives me something, it doesn't go anywhere. Okay, so we are on Coke and a Smile. And it should be up on the screen. It is, if you guys want to read along. Kami, we're probably going to be quiet. I understand if you don't hang around, it's fine. But we're probably going to be quiet because we are working, working, working. Working and torching. Am I missing something here? Cassidy curls up on the couch, sits in the cloud. Like, is the, hang on, don't tell me. Are you saying that the couch cushion's busted and it's got fluff or did you- No, yeah, I can understand it might be confusing. No, I had talked about earlier just about breathing all the second hand smoke and how they got out of there when they- Oh, okay, all right, I got you. And hence the reference to, he'll be eating the pizza but we can say something like the marijuana cloud or- No, no, no, no, I actually think it's fine. Hang on, let me read it all together again. Maybe it does need something. I don't know why, but my brain's like, there's too much time between the first, maybe a accumulated cloud, accumulated smoke. I don't know, I like cloud, but that went through me. Maybe I'm just not awake yet. We'll come back to it. I'm not going to get stuck on something like that. Oh shoot, I forgot to change something.  Hunter's stealing the bike from the library. My wife has had so much stuff stolen at libraries.  This is when we were down in I think Spanish Fort in Daphne. And it wasn't even like a bad neighborhood or anything. It just, she'd set something down and it would disappear. Like, it's- Freaking hate thieves, man. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha, great at it. She got them floppy kits though. Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Hunter. I just want them saying the most inappropriate things in front of these kids.  Look who you're talking to, man, come on.  You see what would have happened had you let me open up the book. The first paragraph would have been nothing but cush words. Why do I love the fact that you moved, that you moved the puckered and pink nipple to the beginning of the paragraph instead of the end of it? That's, I'm sorry, it's like right up front it's the first pain, shame, notice. It's his cousin's nipple poking out of his shirt.  I love it. Yeah, it's, I think it's my, so far it might be one of my, one of my favorites. Yeah, it's such a random, random bit of, oh yeah. Just a perfect example of how screwed up these people are. Ha ha ha ha, yeah. Oh boy. It's a good time. You're such a good man. I'm like, merge into the crowd. I'm reading your stuff backwards. It's funny. Yeah, I already read that, never mind. I'll watch your work. That's a cool thing to witness.  I've never read a Louis Lamar book. So I went to, I wanted to use something specific from a book he might be reading. So I went to Wikipedia and I looked up the whole bibliography of Louis Lamar. And I, sometimes like with movies, not always, sometimes movies or books you can click on the link it'll tell you like pretty much every detail of the book, like the whole plot and everything. They had that for a one book, only one book of his out of all of them. Well, he wrote like hundreds of books, hadn't he? Yeah. Well, the list that they had on there, there was, there was a link, links to one just talked about the book is named after a land that he, or a town he wanted to start or something. And then the other one actually had like the plot summary and it talked about this character being woken by a, by a wolf trying to steal bacon. And then that just turned into a, you know, kind of a metaphor for whatever's going on here with, so that worked out great. Cool. Just finding that by a pure accident. Well, everyone's stuff like that happens. That's the magic. That's the magic I've been talking about.  We are at, for the listeners, we are at a 11,000 words, just over 11,000 words. Ooh, baby, I like the way it is growing. That's what she said. All right. Yeah, we're, and we're not even at the, we're not even at the carnival yet. Yeah, we're not at the meat of anything, so. Because once we get to the carnival, it's going to be almost like a reset. We got to introduce a whole new cast of characters. We got to describe the carnival, how the inner workings play out and all that stuff. So. Yeah. And just, just the night, you know, that even just the night before will probably be at least, I mean, I'm guessing, but at least a couple thousand words. Yeah. We'll probably hit 20,000 before we, before we get, before he actually arrives and starts living with the carnival or rolling. Yeah, probably, yeah. And that'll work perfectly because I've perceived the middle section to be anywhere from, you know, 25 to 40,000 in and of itself. Yeah.  Subplot stuff. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And then the last bit, maybe like 10, 15,000 closing, falling action, you know, that stuff. Yeah. Climax, falling action, outro, all that. Yeah. We're looking at least, I would say at least 65,000 words. And now that the chapters are short-ish, they're not short, like, you know, they're not like Patterson, but they're definitely cliffhanger chapters, which is gonna keep people speeding through it. So at 70, at 65,000, 70,000 words, this'll still be for most people like a two or three sitting read, which, you know, it'll burn through a lot of people, you know, one sitting, but yeah, it already reads Quick as Hell. Like I feel like if I were to go back right now, I could read this entire section that we've written, probably not, but in about 15, 20 minutes, just because it reads so fast. Yeah. Might have chunky paragraphs, but it's like boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the carnival bits because it's just such an open world at that point, you know, just a big sandbox. If I could write nothing else the rest of my life, it would just be carnival, circus, amusement park, boardwalk stories, that's it. Like there's so much to plumb there. And you can have romance, drama, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, any number of things. Carnival is just, they're just full of stuff to plumb. So yeah, I'm all about the, because the other story that I'm writing is nothing like what we're gonna be doing. So, but yeah, if I had my choice and someone was, well, if I didn't have a choice and someone was like, you can only write one type of like setting for the rest of your career, it would a hundred percent be, I've also put the most research into that world.  It's like, that's not how they do things. That is inaccurate, but try and do that less and less. So let it be what it is, man, let it be what it is. It also helps that the other carnival story that I'm telling is supernatural and this one doesn't have any of that stuff. Try and decide what I'm gonna do today while you're expanding and blending and all that stuff. If I could only write one thing, I think that it would be like, I just had to write for the rest of my life some kind of series, I would like, I would stretch out like Skull Face Boy over and just, it'd probably get boring, but just all of the random encounters, that was just that, that was probably the most fun to do. And I wanna have some of those random encounters type things where, like the Hershey's Kisses thing, Hershey Kisses thing scene reminds me of something that might be found in Skull Face Boy, just what a weird random encounter, you know? Like he pops in and he's staying with his family for a while and what the heck, this chick's rubbing this thing on her belly in there. That's the immediate image when I started writing that scene. As the immediate image was, there was like no point behind it, it's just in my head, I saw Bethany sitting there with this like a mortar and pestle kind of thing, but I was like, no, that's not it. So I'm like, what is she doing?  I'm like, so I Google, I'm like, is there cocoa butter in Hershey Kisses?  But that's the very first image I got when I started writing. Do I know where the love of circuits or carnival started from? No, it's probably, I think one of the earliest things that I remember watching, there's something wicked this way comes, the old Disney movie. And I've always just been a fan of like Halloween and carnivals and things like that. I don't know where it comes from, but I would say maybe it's watching that movie at a very, very young age and just being drawn in by the magic and the spectacle of a carnival and how they're there and gone. None of those things are, you have things like out in Vegas where like, what is it, circus, circus, you have things like that. Just like a small collective of people just traveling around. There was something that really drew me about that. Also just being there is like being in another world, another planet, there's nothing like it in day to day life. The closest thing you're gonna get is maybe a carousel or someone of those rocking machines outside of like your grocery store, you know. Do they even have those anymore? Like, I can't remember the last time I came across a store with one of those machines out front where you could ride. That's something that just like disappeared. That's interesting. I wonder why they disappeared. But anyways, I think it has a lot to do with escapism and not being in a familiar place, but that unfamiliar place being nothing but fun.  Yeah, I think that's where all that comes from. Of course, I could be wrong, it could be something deeper than that, but mostly it's the escape. Oh, and also if you find any weird things where I reference Bethany as Hunter or Hunter as Bethany, I swap their places in the rest of that chapter. So if I forgot any of them, yeah, I don't want you getting stuck on something like this is the wrong person. Yeah, trust me. I know, I had to go back and forth or some hiz instead of hers in there or whatever. Just keep an eye out for that. Do we know how we wanna start the next day? Good question. Like what timeframe or do we just wanna jump into like the next evening? Could we have them or maybe they send Cassidy and Shane out to get the baking soda or whatever to cut the drugs with. And along the way, Shane sees the flyer for the carnival or something like that or they see the carnival being set up on the way in town or so I don't know, not in the way in the town, they live in town, but on the way, I'm trying to think of a, probably just jump in and start writing it, but do you like that idea with them going out to get the stuff to cut it? Yeah, it's just that we've established that so far that Cassidy is just so not down with shoplifting. Anybody going with him? Yeah. Or Shane has established it. Yeah, I knew it. I knew what you meant. They can have them doing some, they can have them like not even tell, like Shane doesn't even know that where they've sent Cassidy or maybe that he does. I don't know. He wakes up and he's already gone. He can have Shane dig a hole in that he doesn't know what it's for, which he thinks is weird considering Uncle Travis won't let them dig holes for like their dog that died. And he could think he's digging a hole for something else when it eventually finds out it's grave. Unless they're just gonna, Cudder could be in the trunk or Cudder could just be dead at home. Very true. But if they did have him digging a hole, I don't know what the excuse could be that he would buy into right away for a little while anyway. Could be a... Well, it wouldn't be a very big hole but I was thinking maybe he could assume it or Travis could even tell him that it's to hide the drugs.  That ain't big enough. He's like, how much do you... It's like, boy, do as I say kind of thing, whatever. It just keeps digging, keeps digging, keeps digging. I don't know if...   And then he could go through his head. And I could make that stretch for quite a bit.  I can try that and see how it works. Yeah.  But I don't know, burying the... I think we'd be fine just doing... Him being told to dig the hole. He goes, he asked him where Cassidy went. It's like, we sent him out for the baking soda. We need you to... And he's like, I'm gonna go try and find him. He's like, no, I need you to dig a hole for me. And he's like, whatever. And then see how it happens naturally. Then we can always change it later. And I'm out there and he's digging and the day is getting longer and every time he thinks he's done, he'll try to be like, nope, that's not good enough. We need it bigger.  And it's a constant, angry emotion, just building, building, building. And then, I don't know, maybe they sent him to his room and he happens to sneak out and see them, put the body. I don't know how you wanna do that.  Like he could wake up in the middle of the night and look out the back window and see them. I think that I like it that there isn't 100% for sure. But the reader and Shane pretty much know what's going on. Like they've been giving enough clues, but never told. Right, yeah, I can manage that. Like it doesn't actually see it, but starting to put the clues together, I'm also wondering, because I'm fusing, they're dipping into your thing here and they're talking about, so me and Hunter went and seen Cooter just now.  Or, because I haven't read much further in this.  But I wrote that, I wrote it two different ways. I went back and changed it after I read some of your stuff. I'm not 100% sure what happens.  And then tries the Coke, and then Bethany tries it.  And then all conversation about Cooter just disappears. And I think that's what I was trying to do with that was have the conversation end without ending, without any answers. But yeah, maybe. Or have them say, so got the score as promised or whatever. And then he says something that makes Rita think that he was at Cooters. So he said, so you went to Cooters, and he's just, he's like, that's not what I'm saying. So he's like, everybody pretty much knows, he's talking about Cooter, but he doesn't come out and say it because Cooter's in the trunk. Yeah, what are we gonna do with Shivi? Are we even gonna tackle that? That's a good question too. It could, you wanna get dark, dark, it could be both of them. Like, you know, it could be two bags in the ground instead of just one. It's like, literally I could do something with looking out there, looking out the back window, and he sees them toss a bigger bag followed by a smaller bag in there.  We can't afford trash pickup now. They're burying trash. But Shane's smart also. So it's like, it can't be a body because one of them is one size, one of them is the other side. And if Cooter, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't mention Cooter at all. And that way, it'd be, you know. What was the surprise? Yeah, it'd be later on when Cassidy and Shane are on the phone. It'd be like, there's nobody at Shivi's house. Ain't seen Cooter, Shivi ain't been around. And then Shane can start piecing things together.  I think that would be a cool buildup. Not knowing what the fuck's in there. Knowing that it might be a body, Shane, you know, knows just hasn't put two and two together. We've already established that Cooter and Cooter sells drugs, right? Or is it just that his house isn't? Yeah, nope, and he's got guard dogs. Right, okay. So dogs, empty bowls, like Cassidy can bring up the things like the dogs are out there. I don't think they've been fed or watered because their bowls are empty. It could be any number of things. Like one of them got sick in the dish and no one ever cleaned it up or whatever. It's like, I haven't heard from Shivi. I haven't heard from Cooter. And that's when Shane, you know, puts everything together.  And it's like, dude, I think they're dead. I think they're buried in the backyard. And maybe another chapter, well, another phone call later on, Cassidy, I was like, I know you told me not to, but I dug up while everybody was asleep. I snuck out while everybody's asleep, I dug it up.  I don't know, something along those lines. He finds out where they went or what happened to him. And then after that one, it would be radio silence. Like he would start missing phone calls after that one.  What about at the beginning? Or I just thought of an excuse to dig the hole. They get stuck. Okay. What if like, when he's asked to dig the hole, he's like, well, what do you need the hole dug for? And then Uncle Trab just says, Bruce is dead. You need to bury him. And there was no like, just very like, all of a sudden, what do you mean? Like the dog wasn't sick. Nobody's mentioned a thing. And so it's like- Yes, but also, and that could explain why he's okay with the smaller bag.  Yeah, I like that.  It's just kind of an escape goat. And this is why, yeah. Like he thinks that's being smart and you know, covering all his- Yeah, I like it. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Truly creative, right? Okay, thanks Ishmael. Let's see here. Yeah, that's where I'm gonna pick up. And then when you ask him to dig it deeper, he's like, you know, the dog's not that big.  And maybe Golden Retriever. And he's like, well, yeah, but I don't, we don't want that thing stinking up the yard. Yeah. You know, more excuses and then the more- Yeah.  Yeah, it's also gonna be building up in his head with the missing jewelry box. Every, they didn't send Cassidy out one more time to steal, so on and so forth. It just, everything is just building up. And then later that evening, he's gonna run into Shanna and that's gonna be it. He's gonna make the decision. So, yeah, yeah, let's, yeah, let's go. Let's go, let's go, let's go. But I'm wondering, how do you want him to come? I don't know why I'm stuck on this, but before we jump back into this, I'm probably gonna take a break too, but how do you want him to come across the carnival? That's the only thing that I don't see in my head. Do we want him to see a flyer or do we want him to just like stumble across it when he goes out? But why is he going out? You know, what is it? Right, right. My first thought was to have Cassidy be excited and bring home a flyer when he's out.  When he's the one that wanted to go in the first place. So, what if Cassidy takes too long? Nobody in the house gives a fuck, but Shane decides to leave anyways.  Cassidy hadn't come back and he's getting worried about Cassidy and then we can have something like Cassidy had to go hide because he got caught again without Shane there. And so Shane, Shane goes out to find him without their permission. It's like, I'm going, you can't stop me. Kind of, I don't know, maybe you don't want to do that, but he goes out anyways without their permission to find him because he's been gone for hours and he hasn't been back. Nobody's noticed or would they know because he's only bringing back cutting materials. They're not going to be worried about that. It's not like he's bringing back drugs. And then so he goes out and as he's walking along, just kind of walking through the neighborhood and whatnot, he sees Cassidy coming toward him.  He's like, I had to hide in a field for so many hours because I got caught shoplifting and there was cops everywhere, but they're off my tail now. Maybe something like that. Yeah, yeah, we can do that. And then he can see, oh, and then Cassidy can pull it out. And he goes, wouldn't it be cool to go something like this? I found this flyer while I was hiding. It was on a telephone pole out on the side of the road. Wouldn't this be cool kind of deal? So I don't know, something like that. I'll let it happen naturally, but I need to get, I'll definitely, I'm working on the whole next. So I'll get that going and see what a- I don't really like the idea of Cassidy knowing about the fare, really carnival. Okay, you don't like that idea. All right, that's fine. Just because I don't want Shane looking like the bad guy at all, like he's really ditching, you know? Yeah, he can see it. Like he can be walking to find Cassidy, Yeah, if he's going to look for Cassidy, the first place he's going to head toward is the store. Yeah, he's going to find the, yeah, he's going to find the flyer, tear it off, put it in his pocket or something. I just see it, acknowledge it, and then decide and go check this out later on, not mention it to anyone. He doesn't tell Cassidy because he doesn't want someone to ask Cassidy and Cassidy tell him where he went, that kind of thing. So yeah, okay, yeah, we'll do that. I agree with you. I don't like the idea of Cassidy knowing either because then he's definitely going to pull to go with him. And then where he's going to have a tag along, we don't need, let's see here. Okay, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and take a break. When I get back, I'm going to start, I'm going to jump into that. You want to share your stuff? It doesn't matter to me. It could also be brought up in conversation, no flyer at all. Somebody... Oh yeah, he could over here. Could mention it. Yeah, somebody over here. Someone's car radio. When he gets to the store, someone's got the window down in their car and it's an ad for the carnival being in town. It's like only one night left or whatever. Something like that. We can do that. Any number of things. I'll just see what happens to Ashley when I get in there. I'll be back guys. Okay, okay, I'm back. All right. I'm going to headache. You want me to share mine? Oh, you're on the phone, nevermind. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. It's not like you're hooked up to a blood pressure monitor. No, my sister just tried calling the phone and the phone wouldn't go through so I'm calling her back, but I don't know what the deal is.  I got a cheap phone, man. I just don't, I don't see that. I got a Mac, I got a computer, I got a PC, I got a laptop. I don't see the sense in spending. My son just dropped $1,000 on a phone and I'm just like, what are you doing? Yeah, my wife's that type of person and I have a $49.99 phone. She got a $1,700 Google Pixel or whatever it's called, the high-end jokers. And mine was literally the free phone, but if I had bought it, it would have been $49.99. I got it, I just got like an Android Samsung. Same here. I got a... I mean, it's not like a flip phone or anything, but it's, I don't need to, you know, run a business on my phone or something. Funny part for me is I also have the expensive PC setup, the laptops, all that stuff, but I spend the majority of my time on my phone, which is the cheapest device I have in the entire house. I don't have, most people who contact me is through, except for like family and friends locally. It's usually like on Facebook.   And I'm just like, I'm slow at it. And then I have to go back and fix like 20 words before I send the text. So I just, I don't hardly do anything on my phone. We are completely different in that aspect. I use speech to text.  So I just use speech to text. And then I hit send without even reading it. And then I'll go back and like, I'll put asterisks. I'll rewrite whatever typo it is. And then I'll put an asterisk by it. But it has made some hilarious errors over the years. And I really should read my stuff before I hit send. And the biggest, and this has nothing to do with speech to text, but I got really fat thumbs and typing, that's another reason why you speech to text. This is a big reason why I use it. So as we all know, the N and the B are right next to each other on a keyboard, even on your phone's keyboard. And I was on Twitter and I was typing, I tried to be the bigger man, but instead of typing B, I typed N and I hit send.  I literally almost had like my vision tunneled.  And that still haunts me to this day that someone saw it and someone screenshot it before I got it down. But it was like, maybe not even three seconds because it posted and I saw it. It like, I hyper-focused on that.  And then it almost happened again a couple months later, but I caught it before I hit send. So I should know better than to, you know, just click send automatically, but I do it anyways. Sorry, go ahead. I think my most memorable typo like that is, it wasn't really a typo, but I was like 25 years ago, I had this magazine and I would get fan mail and people would, this was back when, I don't even think my space was out yet, but AOL, instant messenger and stuff, that's what I had. And I had like this following for the magazine and yeah, I would get like fan mail and stuff and met a lot of people online that loved the magazine and there was this one chick, her name was Kat, I think, with a K and she, we were talking and she had sent some pictures or something because I had a website and it had pictures of some of the readers and stuff because sometimes I'd get these cool like horror or punk rock pictures because magazine cover punk stuff and horror stuff. And so they would send cool pictures and stuff and I would turn part of the website into like this gallery almost like it's own little Instagram. And so I got to know this chick through that and we were talking on AOL, I am one day and I guess I didn't know, I forgot who I was talking to because I think you could have more than one window up at a time, I think, and then just click on whatever window and we're talking and I said, and I think she was taking off or leaving and I said, I love you instead of thing. And I saw that I had done it and I just stared at it. I didn't know what to do, I kind of like started to panic and I'm like, frick, what do I do? And then all of a sudden really it pops up and she goes, oh my gosh, I love you too, I just feel so connected to you. And I was like, oh my gosh. And I said, I'm sorry, I don't know what to say. I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to type that. And yeah, I didn't talk to her too much after that. And she came back and expressed her feelings too and he was like, I didn't mean it, I'm sorry. I almost would have rather she'd been like, what are you talking about, you know? And rather than have her guts like that.   I did not write it, but I was editing something for someone and I got to this part and it's a futuristic story and they have hover crafts and hover bikes, whatever. And this lady is in a hover, on a hover bike and she's going along and she hits an air pocket or whatever the hell it was in the book. And what she wrote is one of the most unintentionally hilarious lines I have ever read in this otherwise very clean manuscript.  And I'm thinking, okay, she got scared and blew out her back door or whatever and now she's plastered to the seat. But the more I thought about it, the more I was like, what the fuck? Like there's nothing else in this book has been vulgar. So I make this note and I'm like, hey, you might want to consider, now I'm not, I love foul language, don't get me wrong. You might want to consider either adding more cussing so that we're prepared like two thirds into the book for this random gruesome scene where she shit herself and she's plastered to the seat. You might want to add more vulgar humor or maybe rewrite this section. Like three days, full three days. And before that, I was hearing back from her probably every couple hours or whatever. The full three days goes by. She comes back and she said, I'm sorry, I'm so embarrassed. It's supposed to say shift with an F. And it just didn't occur to me that that's what she was trying to say. And boy, we laughed. Still to this day, I'll talk to her and we were like, how's that sudden shit? Yeah, that's one of the funniest ones I've ever from La Crosse because it worked contextually. It just didn't fit the rest of the narrative.  I was in an anthology with a very popular author. And I was reading, I normally don't read the anthologies that I'm in, but very rarely, but this one I was and I was reading their story. And in there it said, in this book had been published now and I was reading my contributors copy and there was a line in there that said they were trying to do some like metaphor. And it was like, it was so like black, it was like and then it just said like, there were like eight capital Xs. And I was like, I was like, oh man, dude, did what I do. And they're like, I'll come back to this later. And so I contacted the publisher who was like a kind of a friend of mine or at least an acquaintance. And I said, hey man, I think you forgot to get the rest of his wordage here. And I guess I should have guessed because this particular author really, really likes to think outside the box. And sure enough, it was purposeful and it was essentially a, there are no words the blink cannot be filled kind of thing. Wow. Okay. And it sounds pretentious, it doesn't work at all but that's what they were going for. I have a, I have one. Like it was so black that X, X, X, X, X. That's, yeah, that definitely, no matter how I think about that, if I read that it would be an error. Yeah. It would be something like that. Yeah. I think the only thing experimental I've actually done with words like that is for Richard Punch, I had a character in there that is very, very urban and every other word was the N word. And I didn't feel comfortable typing it out but that's just how the character spoke. So I would literally put N with like four dashes. So like two M dashes right together for each, for every time he said it. And I also did that for other slurs in the book but yet I had cussing and everything else in there trying to give the, it was like, this is not important. That's the only thing that I've ever done that was experimental with like exercising a word and using something different because I didn't want that to be the focus but that was also the character development for that individual. Like it was important that they spoke that way because it was realistic. And then, you know, every other slur in the book is the same way. And I got a review from Beard, a well-read Beard that said, he's the only one who's ever pointed it out. Of course it was very limited release through my Patreon but he's the only one that pointed out. And he said, I think I understand why he did it because that wasn't the focus. He didn't want people focusing on the hateful stuff. And that's why there's cuss words and everything in there but he censored all of the slurs. And that's a hundred percent.  And it's the immediate onset of the pain all the way through, you know, how long it goes up into our stomach and then it lasts about 10, 15 minutes. So I wanted to encapsulate this entire novella in that one 15 minute time frame and everything that's happening. And the point of the piece, it's complete literary fiction. It's very character oriented. There's really no plot to speak of.  And it's going around to each one of their heads and showing the viewpoint. And what I was trying to get across and I think Beard caught onto it was, you know everybody has their different ways of looking at things and trying to everybody. It was my attempt to bring everyone in that circle together to have some kind of common theme. And I thought any of the slurs that would have been put popped into people's heads or that were said aloud would take away from that. So, you know, it's like unity, even though people talk a certain way and they have to be able to talk a certain way it's still that section is about unity about people coming together and finding the common thread.  So I had a character like that.  And then I had basically all the stereotypes I could think of.  Anyways, but it just, it felt, it felt right to write it like to get the dialogue right but at the same time I wasn't going to write that word over and over and over again. And on top of that, it was important for me to have another side of the story like my wife can't stand the word. She doesn't use it.    But that's the most experimental thing I've ever done with words, but I think that is a huge mistake on their part for leaving that in because no matter how you think about it it's like I was talking about the other day where some people write like the first two numbers of a year and then put a dash to make it timeless. It always feels like an error to me. It always feels like they were supposed to go back and fill that in.  I think I just got a one star for using the N word. I still read all my reviews and I don't care what anybody says. It doesn't bother me. One stars don't bother me.  Yeah they love everything. Yeah I don't feel so special. And just one star I clicked and I was like, okay, what do you like? You know, because this is for how the skin sheds. And I saw that nothing else was getting one star. So I looked at their books. I typed in my name to see if they'd have ever read me before. This is something I do all the time but for some reason I just decided I wanna do this because they never said anything in their review or in their rating. I'm good reads. And they had read nine of my books and every single one of my books except for this one all five stars and a couple of four stars. And so yeah I can't help it. I was like, this is either. They didn't actually write the review. You don't know why they gave me the one star. It might also, it's for the Western, right? Yeah. Yeah. But it's also a book that people are saying it's the best thing I've written but it does have the N words sprinkle throughout and 11 year old girls raped off screen. And I handle it tactically just like the pair of white. No sense in having that all. So it's either the rape or the, I mean it's brutal too. You know. It could very well be a matter of none of those things are typical Lutzky.  The brutal assault, the, I guess gore.  And that's like an outlier too. I considered him outlier anyway. That's not something I ever thought I'd read from Chad Lutzky. That's, you know, it's just not something that I thought I'd see. And then, you know, it could also, it's a Western but I mean, if you know what you're getting yourself into with that cover. So I'm not sure it a, yeah, but a. Yeah, it could be the Western thing. I don't know though, I don't know. It's funny that you mentioned that you're bringing up literally my video for my video for, what is it? Friday, the 11th. So yeah, tomorrow is unsolicited advice. Why I suggest only reading negative reviews. And you're, what you said was, you know, you going and checking out the person who reviewed their profile. Like not in a stalkery weird way but just seeing what else they liked. I actually mentioned that in doing that in that video which is if you're gonna follow someone's reviews, if you're gonna look for certain reviews you wanna make sure that you are going over to their other books and finding out what they like and they do like and they don't like. And then when you go over there if you guys have the exact opposite their negative reviews can help you find good books. And that's one of the things that I said. So it's just funny that you bring that up in my video tomorrow is all about that. That's cool. I look forward to watching that. Yeah. Like I said, those reviews don't bother me. If they talk about something, I can learn something. You know, that maybe people who are being biased just because I love all my stuff that maybe I need to pay attention to. I think the only, there are two reviews actually that I did not appreciate and they were both for the same book. Have you read Stirring the Sheets? Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, one was like from a very outspoken feminist standpoint I'm so tired of men thinking they can do whatever they want with women kind of thing. And then the other one was a more reason.  No, this is probably the, no, this is a different one, which I've just got me a five years. I think we talked about both of these. Go ahead and continue on. Cause I think you talked about it. Yeah. Well, the feminist one was actually from a YouTuber that I'm sure you're probably familiar with, but I don't think she's given me another chance since then. Yeah. And the one that you're probably referring to is the one where they kept making references about how this man was raping this body. And if you read every other thing it tells you if you've been having reservations about reading this cause you think it's about necrophilia there is absolutely no necrophilia in here.  There's a very specific reason why he has any. Yeah.  It's a beautiful story.  Thanks. Yeah. That's the only one that really pissed me off because the whole review was just nothing but lies. I find this hilarious because I believe I said in my review, my written review but it's probably it's gone now cause it was over on Goodreads and I've killed that name but I believe what I said either it was in my video review one or the other it doesn't matter but I remember I remember going into it expecting that and then at some point in time I was a little I don't want to say disappointed but it was I can understand that. I was shocked that it didn't go there. I think it was one of the first but I was after I read Skullface Boy so I wasn't entirely sure what you were capable of. As far as how far you would go. So I wanted to read something that seemed like it was going to be pushing the boundaries and I tried, I got into that.  Like it's, I think we get too hung up on our expectations for things. And I find I found myself especially recently going, just let it play out. Let it, because also I've seen all these stupid stories of people flipping out about authors thinking that an author thinks or feels a certain way because something happens early on in the book only to come to find out after they DNF it that it is explained completely by the end. It's like that's not how someone acts or that's not how someone would do this or whatever.  And another thing that drives me nuts is the men writing women Twitter. It used to be hilarious because they would look at the context of the situation in a book and they would post stuff that was really terrible. Like, you know, like the famous line about John Updike in Witches of Eastwick where he said women's plumbing and reproductive organs, all that stuff is like a labyrinth and it takes them forever to pee because it has to travel through this labyrinth team system or whatever.  It's incorrect. But then Haruki Mitakami won like worst sex scene of all time for, I think it was 1Q84. And what people fail to realize in context is it's supposed to be a bad sex scene. It's supposed to be awkward. It's supposed to be weird. It's not supposed to be erotic. And I wish more people would understand that just because there is a sex scene in the book between consenting adults, it does not mean that it's meant for you to get your rocks off. You know, some of these things- Oh, I've had plenty of bad sex. We all have. Yes, but what I'm saying is also that's the point of the, in the context, they didn't show the paragraph above it or the paragraph beneath it. They just showed the sex scene. And before that, he sets up how awkward and uncomfortable they are with each other's bodies and it just gets worse and worse and worse. And then by the end of it, they're like, okay, well, we're never doing that again because that was the most awkward, worst experience of our lives. Yet they just crop that. And I love that Twitter account for the longest time, but then they just crop that and ever since then they've been reaching for content. They've been reaching and picking stuff off. And here I am.      There's nothing deeper about it.  It's just gonna lay there.  I don't understand.  Men tend to write sex worse because they write from male point of view and then women come along. And there's always that divide that we're both looking for something different when it comes to sexual relationships. And if a dude gets it wrong, fine, but at least put the context for the rest of the scene without trying to reach. And that's what a lot of people do nowadays, especially with social media. They see that certain things are popular and then they start mining things that are innocent so that they can cause more drama.   I don't subscribe to any of that. I know that some people do, but to any of that, you know, write what you know and guys shouldn't write this or people shouldn't write this, it's fiction. It's not a self-help book that's teaching you how to be a woman. It's just fiction. And if a woman or a person that is a white guy and a black guy wants to write me, who am I to like all of a sudden act like we're all in the same box. We're all very, very different people.  Exactly. Yeah. Just like Jeffrey Dahmer was a gay cannibal.  Right. No. We're all very, as a human race, we're all very capable of being, we are individuals and we're all very capable of doing very bizarre things despite race, color or gender. Yeah. Like I said in my let fiction be fiction video, it's like, I guarantee you, if it is humanly possible someone has tried it.  Like if there's something on this earth that will fit in your body, someone has put it in an orifice at some point in time, even stuff that's not supposed to fit. You know, it's, I don't know. It boggles my mind, especially when I read reviews like this would never happen, no one would do this.  I mean, there's a whole rotten.com is full of or I don't even know if it still exists but it's got everything you could possibly think of.  I think the most disturbing thing I ever saw this video is definitely getting demonetized. But anyways, I think the most disturbing thing I ever saw was there was this lady, she's bent over, she's on the back of her neck.    It's like, why would you set yourself up? Why would you take a picture, do something like that? And then I see reviews that say no woman would ever sleep with this dude or something like that. And it's like, I promise you, there is a woman out there right now reading that same book going, I love this guy and I would take him to Poundtown in an instant. I promise you. Yeah, for sure. And there are a lot of people who, you could tell they very specifically are searching for something.  And it's for a guy to write that is very touchy. Most of the reviews will say that it was handled perfectly well or I nailed it or something like that. But you can always tell the one person who's like, oh, this is written by a guy? Yeah, we'll see about that. And so they're searching for little things that they personally can't identify with or how they would have handled. That's why the three girls have three different reactions to their assault, which is how would, I know plenty of people have been assaulted.  And then you've got this girl who is darn near trafficked and she's doing fine. That, you know, the trauma response is not one and the same. And everybody is very different. And that's what that book is about is each individual dealing with their own trauma and trying to be free when they are trying to find freedom after they've been set free.  I'm tired of white men writing about Indians. It's like... I still love that review. I love every time he shares it. And then he usually shares it with a picture of himself right next to the review. And that shit, that just tickles me every time I see it.  You know, there's a... The book that really changed my perspective and it was a book.  There's a book called Precious that was written by Sapphire. And the grown woman has been molested all of her life by her father. And there is a scene in there where she enjoys the sex. And this is written by a woman, probably maybe based on her own experience or whatever, but everyone was so appalled by that, that she would enjoy it. And to take advantage of this incestuous relationship to get her rocks off kind of deal is pretty much how it's written. Like, I might as well enjoy it. And that really got to me. But at the same time, I looked at it and I was like, there's got to be someone out there like that. You know, if... There's a lot. I know. I know.  There's a dude in, I can't remember, there's a state, there's several states that incest is in a crime in America. And there's this dude who moved there and took his daughter, who was 11 at the time.  And now they live, I can't remember if it's Connecticut or where it is. But watching that break down, they're on TikTok. And he literally just, he'll answer questions from people is like, there's nothing wrong with this. We're both human beings.  But I mean, it's not like he's showing what they're doing. He's just talking about it. And whether it's sensationalism or not, that it just adds more credence to if we can do it as a... If it's possible, someone out there has done it. Someone out there has enjoyed it. And also it's that one thing, it's one of the oldest sayings we have, which is one man's trash is another man's treasure. Everybody's different. Everybody looks at things differently. And I'm just tired of fiction being used against the author as if that has to be their point of view that has to be their standpoint. They have to feel that way because I am, I don't know, I might not be, but I am probably the most leftist liberal person. I don't know, maybe that you know. Like I'm the anarchist. One of my best friends is very, very far left. We agree on absolutely nothing. Okay, all right. So, but anyway. I'm not saying I'm far right. I'm just saying that... No, no, I get you. But all I'm trying to say is with me, I wrote South of here.   And it is, and that's another reason why I didn't write it in First Person because it was already obvious that this person is not someone's head that I wanna be in. But I still wanted his deep reactions to things.  Getting in there and making him as despicable as possible and then one-upping him by the people around him to a point where people will end up liking him even though he has these terrible thoughts and ideas and plans and focuses and all this stuff that there is always much, much worse than what you see than who you're experiencing. There's far worse out there. And once again, that theme is back South of here.  There is no limit to the depths of our depravity. Anyways, I don't think that, like I know what you're saying and I disagree with the whole reader associating the book with the author and their viewpoint. However, there is a gray area in that for me and that is like, let's say South of here, that's all you wrote. You had like 15 South of here's. At that point, I would, and that's sometimes, I see some of these extreme authors and it's like, every book is just rape, rape, this rape, that's like, you're trying to tell me you're not, your mind is not, if you're writing one story, like Duncan Ralston wrote womb and then he moved on and he wrote a bunch of other stuff that wasn't even close to that. That seems normal to me. But if you're writing womb part 15, you are, that's saying a lot about you. But there's also the camp of... Unless you're doing it for money because womb the first one just took off and it's your cash in. I was just about to go there because that's what Richard Layman had a problem with.  Back then, when Coontz and Layman were good friends and they were churning out books like, two or three, sometimes four books a year, they were, the publishers were having them add in rape and all different kinds of stuff. And the reasoning for it is because it was the, you got what, Last House on the left and all this other, the cinema and everything where it's not glorified, but people are going to see it. And of course the mindset for some odd reason is like, people are going to see it because it's, they like watching it or whatever. But with, what happened with him is he doesn't, well he didn't, sorry, I still talk about him in the present tense. He was nothing like that. He was a very sweet, kind man, did everything. He'd do anything for anybody. And he was pressured into adding, the sexualizing everything, adding a lot of sexual assault and all that stuff. So while I agree with what you're saying, it also depends on the timeframe because sometimes if you write, he's got 20, 30 books at least, every single one of them in a row, all of them have sexual assault. So it's, once again, there's still no telling if someone is writing, and I get what you're saying, it does feel a little creepier if that's all they're doing is womb part 23 at this time. But at the same time, yes, there is, like you said, there's the money aspect of it. What is selling? I'm mainly talking about, I'm not talking about career authors. I'm talking about people who you could, yeah, and they might be bringing in a couple of books, but ultimately, this is a hobby. You're not making that much money to. Right, right. You clearly know by now that your, this extreme stuff that you're doing, the rapey stuff is not paying the bills. So it's what you usually write, unless it comes to money, people often write about just what the appeals to them. Unfortunately. If that is what they're writing over and over and over again. Then I do, I can't help but start to wonder, you know, what do you got, what do you got inside you? I wanted to, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that Talking Scared podcast, I'd never listened to it before, but they just nabbed the Stephen King interview and it's available and listened to right now. And it's a great interview. Cool. And I thought you would like it because it talks about a lot of stuff. I think you would find interesting and including that scene in it. It talks about for a while. Okay. I'm gonna email myself just so I don't forget. Yeah, it's about an hour long. And yeah, it's informative. And I kept, you kept popping in my head. I can't remember anything specifically, but you would talk about something and I'm like, I bet you would love to hear this, including future projects. Okay. Who started this? Who started this distraction? Someone asked a question? I don't know. I don't even remember. It's way up here. If it was, I don't think it, I think it was just us going down like a natural rabbit hole. I think that's what you said. Probably. That's all that was. I was trying to find somebody else to blame. Yeah, I know. That's all right. This can be the lost episode. No, just kidding. No, I don't think anybody's gonna have any problems because most people know us. Everybody who watches these videos is well versed in us, whether it be our work or our personas. So, I had to run off to the restroom. I'll be right back. Hey, Hailey. Hello, Hailey. Sorry, everybody. Found a Chalky-Terry board. The Music Hailey is a, somebody I know shared, it's an 11 hour stream of Noir LA Dark Jazz Radio. I thought I'd write to it. It's funny because some of it sounds like horror movie music and you over there clicking away sounds like someone trying to get out of like, they've been buried alive and someone's trying to get out of a coffin. So, it's a very atmospheric for, I mean, it doesn't work with what we're writing but it's very atmospheric. Right now it reminds me, this particular song reminds me of The Gold Room in Stanley Hotel. I don't know how much you can hear it, but. I hear like bits and pieces of it different now and again, but it fits. Hey, you gotta get that, do you got Xbox or PlayStation? I actually have, we have every console generation in the house, but right now, anyways, I have access to them all. But right now the X, no, sorry, the series S is in my oldest room and then there's the PlayStation up front. We got to switch. Yeah, so I have access to all of them, but what do you? A week from tomorrow, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game comes out. Ah, cool. The only thing I don't have is a good gaming PC but I'm working on that.  I'm very interested in it. If you've got an Xbox Game Pass, I think that's being released on Game Pass. Oh, okay, cool. We have access to that. So I'm gonna definitely, I can't wait. I saw a trailer for it, it looks good. It looks like, I don't know if you've played the, have you played the Friday the 13th game? Yeah, I played that one, I played the Evil Dead one and I played Dead by Daylight. They're all pretty much the same, the same build. Other than with Ash, the Evil Dead game, you get weapons, whereas in Dead by Daylight, you don't in, you, if you unlock Tommy, you unlock a rifle in Friday the 13th, but I haven't played that nearly as much as I've played like Dead by Daylight and Evil Dead. Okay, I've only played Friday the 13th. That game is cool. This looks like it might be, it looks like you could be like either one of the Sawyers or you can be like one of the victims. Sounds cool. Yeah, it's the same way in all the rest of the games.  And in Dead by Daylight, you can choose one, you can't choose, it's like a roll of the dice, whether or not, I think, maybe not. I think you can choose now, whether you want to be the bad guy or the, you want to be the slasher or the people or the victims. But I think when it first started out, it was a roll of the dice, what you got. But it's the same thing with Friday the 13th, you can be Jason too. I think it's far more fun being the killer than it is running away. I like them both because if you get tired of one, you can, you know, but you like the game, you can hold different mechanics playing the other thing. Keep running the wrong hole.  H-O-L-E and W-H-O-L-E. But the latter, Chad. The latter. Good resist. Yeah, I know. The page is done. Dang it. With your layering and everything and adding more and all that stuff. Yeah, I'm going to leave that where I have it. See what you like, see what you don't like. It's noon and we got to go grocery shopping. Probably going to do another 30 minutes if you want to. I don't have anything to write but if you want to talk before we go. Yeah, okay. Basically what I've done is I wrote the entire digging scene probably going to need some expansion. Some of the stuff is a very almost like stream of consciousness because he gets hit one point at a time. So he's become kind of repetitive and whatnot. Somehow I'm on my feet and back in the hole. Neeper, crab said deeper. I dig deeper. I dig until the lift of the grave. It's not a grave, it's not. It's level with my shoulders. I haven't been to the doctor since a year before mom died and I'm grown considerably in that time. So I have no idea how tall I am but I'm pretty sure I'm over five foot something. Surely five feet is deep enough. Do I keep digging? I keep digging. Every shovel full weighs as much as the whole wide world, but I've carried heavier things. So this is where my mind was at with that section.   That's gotta be at least a thousand words.  As soon as I scroll up, the first thing I see is porn star eyes but it's got the hyphen in there. Anybody know the M-dash?  I'm in a corner of the town but he's missing that.  I was literally just about to change the act of ain't and here you come. You were supposed to be up there working.    One of the dogs is in trouble now. Here's to you, baby Dwayne. Oh my God. He's watching every moment here and every bounce. Bad sound. Yeah. All right.   And I know you'll be working in the background too and I'll probably end up jumping into it more. I'm rounding the final curve in this novelette. I'm writing. Once I did that, done. I'm back to this almost wholeheartedly. So I'll be able to work with, all I'm saying is I'll have more time to work on it off camera is what I'm getting there. Okay. So it's gonna be ramping up here pretty quick. Another thing is I wanna make sure that it's all right that I'm going so far ahead. I wanna make sure that we're on this, the same page kinda.  I don't care one way or another. Yeah. I mean, I'm gonna say I'm tallying. Tallying. We gotta be over 12. Yeah. We're at 13,651. So we've got in about 1,600 words today. Yeah. No, no, no. 2,600? I wrote a lot. So, I mean, I wrote, yeah, I wrote several. I think I wrote more this morning than I actually did during the session. Yeah. And we also spent like an hour chatting, so. Yeah. It's a really good day. Talking to me about stuff. Yeah. The Neon Demon soundtrack is awesome too. I don't know why I thought you were talking about Neon Owl. I mean, I read Demon three times, but I was like, Chad, you have a Neon Owl soundtrack? Not yet. Who was it? Someone put a track list in the back of their book and the songs that they listened to. I thought I wrote and listened, I thought I listened to weird stuff when I was writing certain scenes, but nothing on this dude's playlist felt right for anything that was in the book. And I'm weird in the, with how I do it, because if I'm writing a very heartfelt scene that's full of emotion and passion or whatever, I'll listen to something like Slipknot or Slayer or something like that, something hard. And it makes those scenes come out interesting.  And that's so I can add the heart into the brutality or whatever's going on. I can have it, it lends. It's like, okay, don't forget to keep this at a human level. But yeah, this is one guy, it was almost like a folk horror book and he had some rap songs in there, some very recent rap stuff and a couple other things.  And I was like, it's odd that you shared that because it would be extremely hard to read your book while listening to this track list, especially the rap songs. I can't write or listen to rap at all. I get too hyper focused on the words. Now something like Cannibal Corpse or Metallica or something like that I can play in the background. Same with Adele and Tom Waits, but for the most part, I can ignore it. But if it's something that it focuses entirely on the, unlike the rhythm of the words, that's what I get stuck on is the rhythm of the words. And then I'm singing in my head and I'm writing what I'm singing and it's a mess. And I'll be listening entirely to Tom Waits when we get to the carnival. It's just his music is carnival music. It's nomadic, Roma, folk, folky, all that stuff. He is the soundtrack to every carnival I've ever been to. Even if they don't play his music, it's all of it fits. Yeah, I can't hardly listen to it if you guys lyrics. Yeah, I know a lot of people like that. I used to be like that too, but now I can, the more I know, this is the funny part. The more I know a song, the more I can ignore it.  It doesn't have to process because I already know what they're saying. But if I'm listening to something like I haven't listened to before, something I don't know the lyrics to, I haven't memorized, then I end up focusing on the lyrics because I don't know them. So it's weird. I'm the complete opposite. If I'm familiar with it, I'm anticipating the next riff. I'm anticipating lyrics, melodies, and I'm more into it, even if it's something I've heard a zillion times. But if it's something that has lyrics that I'm not familiar with, part of me is still listening and judging whether I like the song or not. But most of my attention is on what I'm doing and I'm using the mood of something that I'm not familiar with. Just like if I'm watching a movie and a song I know comes on, I'm like, oh, I know that song. And then I think more kind of about the song and how cool it fits. But then if I don't know the song, it's more like background for what I'm watching because I'm not familiar with it. Yeah, it's complete opposite. Complete opposite. Thanks, Haley, appreciate it. This is gonna grow considerably in the next week or so because we're really getting into the meat and potatoes of the story and it's just gonna blow right by. I have a feeling we might end up more than 65,000. As I'm just sitting here, I always calculate like how much we still have to do and what we have been able to put in there so far with the word count that we have, it might end up being 75 or 80. But then we have to go back and clean it up, take out anything repetitive, take out all that stuff. It might shrink more in a second draft. I don't know. So this is our ninth video but only our sixth one writing. Seventh. Because we had two videos that was brainstorming and outlining and then we started the third one. So three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Yeah, seven episodes of writing. So we've been writing about 2,000 words in episode. Yeah, and like I said, it's gonna get, I keep wanting to say it's gonna get much worse but that's not what I mean.  It takes me about a week to get into a new routine and I'm there now because I just blew out that entire section really nonstop. It's just, I knew exactly where I was going and I know where we're going after this. So if nothing else, I can make a foundation or a frame for you to build on and that's just gonna make it. All I'm saying is what I've said over and over again. It's gonna get much quicker starting, well, starting today. Like I said, we already, we wrote 2,600 today. We added 2,600 anyways and it's just gonna get better. I don't know why I keep thinking more and say worse. It's getting worse, Chad. I hate every minute of it. I think once we get to the carnival, we will have to come out with some kind of... Because because it's so open and random encounters, people that we're meeting, we probably have to buckle down a little bit. I was thinking, otherwise we could both just go crazy and then all of a sudden it's like, well, you know, with all these different characters. That's kind of, okay. Hear me out. It's kind of what I was hoping for and why I say that is because it would tonally, it would work. He goes from the monotony, the daily routine, the horrible situation, this enclosed almost claustrophobic feeling of being stuck in this house and having that monotony and that routine and everything being so bad, that when he gets to the carnival, those first, like I would say upward of maybe 10 chapters would just be him having random encounters, you know, and us going off and doing our own thing that really has no point other than to build the characters that he's interacting with. So I kind of like the idea that when we get there, it's kind of chaos and open world-ish and that he's, all these new experiences are coming together, you know, and he's like, this is almost like mom's back or whatever it might be. This is a place of freedom. And, you know, I also want to really play off of him doing certain things and expecting to get in trouble for them and not getting in trouble for them.   And he goes from that to this complete open world, this freedom where he's completely free to be himself. He's got to find, I don't want to get deep, like he has to find himself. That's not really what I'm saying. It's more like, you know, it's coming of age. You know, it's him learning how the world works outside of this hellhole because he only has the small insular experience of the happy times with his mother.    And that's the only thing, you know, that they judge you based on how much you're willing to put in, you know, and it's not really, like it's a give, give, give, give, give situation with the Charles house, but at the carnival it's a give and take, you know, everybody's moving back and forth and whatnot. And I think the chaos of the carnival would actually give him more stability than the monotonous brutal routine of the Charles house. So I'm just, I'm throwing that out there. But I was kind of hoping, like I said, I was kind of hoping that we would do that when we got to the carnival, it'd be like, you go off and then I'd write a scene that came like a couple of days later, they really don't have anything to do with each other other than the character development of the people that he's interacting with. So. Yeah, it makes sense.  I saw some, and I know, I want to close this. It probably, I'll talk to you about this office. I don't want to end on this, but I found something interesting. And I want to talk to you once we're done here. There's only two people in here. Anyways, we're going to go guys. Thank you for hanging out with us. We will be back tomorrow. We'll keep going until Sunday. Sunday is a game night. And I'll see you guys at five p.m. there, but I'll also see you tomorrow. So we'll tomorrow at nine o'clock, Saturday at nine o'clock, and then Sunday will be a day off. And hopefully next week we're back on our schedule. I had to take Tuesday off this week, but next week we'll go Wednesday, we'll be off Wednesday and Sunday and probably that way from here on out. But yeah, thanks for joining us. Chad, anything you want to say before we go? Nope. Thanks for watching. Thanks for hanging out. Definitely. Until next time, I'll help it.


When Steve Jobs was a kid He remembered this one story when he was maybe six or seven years old He went up to the girl across the street and he told her that he was adopted To which she replied So does that mean your real parents didn't want you? He said that lightning bolts went off in my head. I remember running into the house crying in my parents said No, you have to understand They were really serious and looked them straight in the eye they said We specifically picked you out And they put an emphasis on every word in that sentence that they chose him because he was special You know when a dream forms itself in your mind in your heart At first it's like this innocent little baby It's beautiful. It's vital. It's alive It has this excited feeling of potential About how it might change or how it might improve your life And for a moment you feel younger stronger Alive for the first time in a long time But then a lot like children something happens when it meets quote reality When it meets the voices of your friends your family society When all of those things meet you You know one of my own friends said to me when I wrote my first book Good luck selling yourself published books You need a whole marketing team and a publishing agent to really do anything with books not to mention. They're a dead business Well tens of thousands of books sold later And hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties Who's laughing now? So what if and this is just a thought But what if Steve Jobs really wasn't that special and really wasn't that unique But just believing that he had been given a special gift Gave him all the gifts he needed to become an exceptional human being What if every limitation and barrier in your head is just the belief of one person in your life and The day you realize that you were born with that exact same seed The same potential To do something great Will be like the day Steve Jobs parents hinted you are special now go and prove us right


Hello everyone, myself Professor Prithish Chittay, working as an assistant professor in mechanical engineering department, Valchian Institute of Technology, Solapur. Now, this will be our fourth session. In this fourth session, we will discuss geometrical modeling. In our last sessions, we have discussed the geometrical transformation, their numericals and the concatenation method. Now, what are their learning outcomes? The students will be able to explain the different types of geometrical modeling, like the wireframe, surface and the solid modeling. Also, they can describe the different schemes of solid modeling, like constructive solid geometry, CHG and boundary representations, that is, B representations. These are the contents. First, we will discuss the geometrical modeling, after that we will discuss the different types of geometrical modeling, and after that, we will discuss the different schemes based on the solid model. What is meant by geometrical modeling? First we will see what is meant by model. A model is mathematical representation of different geometrical entities, where we have to store these geometrical entities in the computer memory. In earlier days, it is really difficult to represent these models manually, it will take a very much time. But with the help of these different modeling softwares like the Katia, Unigraphics or the Solidworks, we can say that there is a time saving and the accuracy is more. So geometrical modeling, what is meant by geometrical modeling? This is the computer representation of any geometrical entity of a mechanical component with the help of different geometrical softwares, which is called as geometrical modeling. So where we can use the geometrical modeling? For the 3D modeling or maybe the 2D modeling, before 3D modeling, we have to use the 2D sketches. In the Katia we have to use the 2D sketches, after that we can provide a third dimension that is called as 3D modeling or which is also called as part designing. And after combining each and every component that is 3D component, we can provide the assembly. Also we can provide the computer added drafting. Computer added drafting means providing the front view, top view and side view and the isometric view with the help of the part list which is very important or we can call it as the bill of material and which is automatic in the different modeling softwares. Manually if you are doing this drafting part, which is very difficult, right? So accuracy is also very more the efficient. So we can use the computer added drafting only by clicking on the one icon or the tool we can get the maybe the front view or maybe the top view or maybe the sectional side view, maybe the right hand side view or maybe the left hand side view. And also we can create the bill of material. This is one simple example. This is a pipe, a 3D pipe also with the help of we are having these sections here. So we can create these types of mechanical components in the different modeling softwares like Katia. So we can provide the different types of analysis like the kinematic analysis, the structural analysis or maybe the static or the dynamic analysis, vibrational analysis, thermal analysis. These are the different types of analysis. There are different types of analysis softwares like maybe the ANSYS, HyperWords, after that IDEA, NASTRON, LSDANA these are the different analysis software. We can do the analysis in the different modeling softwares like the SOLIDWORKS or maybe the Katia. But these analysis softwares is having the very efficient than the modeling softwares. But before analysis we have to mesh the different components to get the discretization that is to create the nodes and the elements. For the different meshing there are the different, suppose you want to create the meshing for the different components, suppose you want to provide the meshing on this pipe or the elbow, here you can provide the meshing with the help of different softwares like the HyperMesh or ANSYS also you can provide the meshing. The types of geometrical modeling, as we have discussed there are the three types of geometrical modeling, wireframe modeling, surface modeling and the SOLID modeling. First we will discuss the wireframe modeling. So these are the some examples of the wireframe modeling. Wireframe modeling is the very least important geometrical modeling. For example application the toolpath simulation. In the CNC programming there is a toolpath simulation, you can provide the wireframe modeling there. But also the advantage is that it will take very less memory to save that particular component or the wireframe model into the computer memory than the surface model and the SOLID model. It consists of, you can see the different edges or maybe the points, maybe the XYZ points and the edges. It doesn't consist of any skin or the surface or maybe the mass and the volume. It doesn't consist of any skin or the surface or the mass and the volume. Because you want to calculate these properties you can't calculate in the wireframe modeling. So only the advantage is you can save this file very easily with the help of very less memory and also wireframe modeling is not using for the any modeling. So we are using the surface modeling and the SOLID modeling for the particular applications. So these are the some examples. Surface modeling, surface modeling is the second type of the geometrical modeling which is very important applications in the aerospace. After that the turbine blades, right, after that the submarine gear boxes. Here for example this bonnet of the particular four wheeler. Suppose you want to model this, we have to use the surface model. What it consists of? The edges and the points after that it consists of the skin or the surface after that it consists of the mass but it doesn't consist of the volume only it doesn't consist of the volume. The volume will be there in the SOLID model. The thickness is very less here you can see. This is the we can call as the condition or the requirement from the customer that we we doesn't want any thickness or very less thickness in the particular model for the bonnet it is it is required to be very less thickness. So suppose you want to create the bonnet model we have to use the surface modeling. So this is the surface modeling. We can provide any analysis the types of analysis suppose you want to calculate the different properties like the mass volume or the stress on the stress strain after that the one mass stresses you can calculate in the surface modeling because it consists of the mass after that different types of surface modeling. The plane surface very simple which will be moving in the only one direction here after that the second one will be over the rule surface which is moving to the two direction that is boundary one and boundary two. So as per this curve there will be the creation of the modeling here only this one here after that the edge surface the four boundaries will be there. So this one this will be one boundary this will be our curvature as per the requirement and the second one that will be only the linear part. So we want the two suppose the surfaces so you can provide the edge surface. Now the the fourth type is tabulated surface. Suppose you want the combination of the curvature and the linear surface only provide this curvature and the linear surface you can get this a particular a planar and the curvature surfaces here. Solid model. Solid model consists of everything this is the most important type of geometrical modeling and which will be used for the different applications for the mechanical components. For example this is the application of the blower suppose you want to create the model of the any machine you can use the solid modeling right. This is one example solid model consists of the different edges points after that the surface after that the thickness you can create or you can calculate the different properties or the parameters like the mass volume it consists of the volume. You can calculate the stress strain and the one message traces deformation you can calculate with the help of different analysis softwares. So the solid modeling is very important suppose you want to calculate the suppose you want to develop any solid model you can create any solid model in the cut here or maybe the solid words with the help of different the tools or the accounts like the pad pocket example or maybe the shaft. Let us think about this equation or maybe the question how to distinguish between the surface and the solid model think about this now what are the different schemes of solid modeling the first scheme is constructive solid geometry. Here constructive solid geometry can provide the different Boolean operations for example here we are adding the two materials first one will be the rectangle and another material is the here the circular rectangular component and the circular component we are providing the union scheme or the union Boolean operation that is A plus B after that here we are subtracting the one component from the another component that is A minus B here we are subtracting the another component from the first component that is B minus A after that this will be the intersection the intersection means the similar part which is present inside the first and second component which will be there as a union part the boundary representation the constructive solid geometry is also called as the C representation the boundary representation is called as B representation the boundary representation provide you each and every views for example maybe the front view the top view the left hand side view the right hand side view also you can get the isometric view right a part by part view you can get it with the help of the boundary representation boundary the boundary itself which called as the front view top view side view maybe the left hand side view or maybe the right hand side view isometric view you can get it inside that right so bound and which is very easily we can done with the help of the computer added drafting these are the references thank you.


Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary General, ministers, respected colleagues, on behalf of the United States of America, I thank the government of the United Arab Emirates for their generosity, their hospitality, and for welcoming us to the beautiful city of Dubai. Mr. Chairman, we wish you the best, and we believe that you will ably guide this conference to establish the work of the ITU telecommunications development sector for the next four years. Mr. Brahim Hasan, thank you for your tireless efforts at the ITU and your dedicated work for the preparation of this conference. Broadband for Sustainable Development is a relevant, timely, and appropriate theme for this WTDC. The futures of our nations are inextricably intertwined, so it is paramount that we work together to move all countries and all people into the digital economy. In a globalized world, we have both a responsibility and an incentive to help each other succeed. The United States is doing our part by supporting policies and actions, public and private, that accelerate the deployment of broadband communication services and applications worldwide. I respectfully request that you read the U.S. contribution on broadband and specifically the annex that details the activities of the United States government and private industry to help close the digital divide. We come to this conference with substantive proposals, united with our friends in the Americas and offered in good faith. We are particularly committed to addressing the needs of people in developing countries and are focused on the following priorities. 1. Increasing access to broadband services 2. Enhancing emergency communications for disaster relief 3. Advancing a culture of cybersecurity and combating spam 4. Addressing the needs of developing countries with respect to conformance and interoperability 5. Emphasizing access to ICTs for persons with disabilities and gender equality and 6. Improving the work of the sector so that more may be achieved. We believe this is an ambitious agenda, but one we can accomplish. These themes are repeated in numerous proposals to this conference from several delegations. With so much in common, I am confident that we can achieve a consensus on outcomes. In the end, the world will judge this conference by the degree to which the Dubai Declaration, the Dubai Action Plan, and our contribution to the draft ITU strategic plan sets the union on a course to meet the needs of people in developing countries. This conference is an important milestone on the path to the 2014 Plenty Potentiary Conference and the world is watching. We must work together in the spirit of cooperation and the spirit of collaboration to deliver results. With your leadership, Mr. Chairman, and the efforts of the distinguished delegates, I am confident that we can achieve a positive outcome. To you, Mr. Chairman, and to all of our colleagues, we extend our very best wishes for a successful conference. Thank you very much.