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Most recent goings-ons of The Write Idea Workshop
Episode 39 of The Write Idea Workshop features prominently a topic Ryan has been trying to avoid for months: creepypasta. Justin is enamored with the stuff, and he tries to explain to Ryan why it's interesting, relevant and fun to read/listen to. Additionally, the guys talk about Free Comic Book Day, the use of semicolons, and secret lairs!
Give it a listen! Click on Justin!
Justin is ensnared in creepypasta
Greetings Workshoppers! Workshopees? We don't really have a name for our listeners just yet. If you have any ideas, we'd be happy to consider them.
Anyway! Over this past weekend, Justin, Ryan and Mr.Matt Bitley journeyed to the not-so-far away land of Chicago to attend C2E2. While there, the gents chatted up quite a few comic book writers, artists and enthusiasts, as well as a bunch of other cool people. Business cards were handed out which included a QR code to bring people to this very site. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to our intrepid hosts at the time, the website had been down for a week or so due to maintenance issues. However, new episodes were posted and directed to our RSS feed. But now the site is back up and in full functionality! Expect once more Weekly updates, the occasional article, and episodes a-plenty for your listening pleasure!
Speaking of episodes, three new episodes are available! Be sure to give them a listen and drop us some comments, or even better, an iTunes review.
Thanks for listening and keep on writing everyone!
Continuing the somewhat standing tradition of only posting one episode in March, the Write Idea Workshop is back with nearly two hours of comic book flavored ear-candy for your listening pleasure!
Give a listen to EPISODE 35 !
Episode 34 is up and running!
In this episode, Ryan and Justin discuss YouTube giants Hannah Hart (@harto on twitter) and Markiplier (@markiplier on twitter) and how amazing they are. Additionally, the two pimp the hell of Camp Takota, Hannah Hart's latest movie alongside Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart! Go give that a viewing or three if you can. It'll touch you in your soul parts.
The tea of choice for episode 34 is a mix between English Breakfast tea and Irish Breakfast Tea. Put that in your cup and drink it, the universe!
Years before the Write Idea Workshop kicked into being, your host Ryan did some videos and appearances on other podcasts centralized around the popular game League of Legends. Check out this goofy video of Ryan as BroLaf, in his segment (that may be reappearing soon) ASK A BROLFAF
Ryan couldn't sleep, so he made a video recommending books to read if you'd like to write comic books.
Every so often when you've been working on writing projects, be they scripts, short stories, poems or whatever, you might reach a blocking point; a point in which you just can't find the words to follow the ones you've already typed/scribbled down. Sometimes, at these points, the self-doubt can kick in and the legitimacy of the whole project can be called into question. It's when this crushing self-doubt kicks in that I need to take a breath and remind myself why I write in the first place.
There are so many times in our lives where we don't have any or very-little control of what goes on around us. We can't stop the cab whose breaks failed and are barreling towards a crowded street corner. We can't stop natural disasters from ripping islands apart. We can't stop the Earth from careening into asteroid fields during it's yearly rotation around the sun. We have no say in that. We can however, create worlds using the power of our words alone and in that plane we reign supreme.
The Start of writing a new story is better than any sugar rush, drunk buzz or extracurricular high, for me. Nothing gets the blood pumping through my cerebellum better than when I'm trying to craft a world. Sometimes it takes a lot of planning, sometimes it's just a few key phrases that set the tone for the universe I'm building. When ideas start clicking into place like Lego's I can get lost in my own head imagining and crafting the various details and people who will inhabit my world. I hardly ever feel that writer's loneliness in the beginning stages of writing.
Through writing, you can step behind the lenses of another person, riding shotgun on their experiences. You can assume the mantle of someone you've never met, never been like, and might not ever meet. You can endure their feelings, take a completely different political stance, "walk a mile in another man's shoes". Call it an escape if you want, or a vacation. For a little while, when you're writing as a character, you're not yourself anymore. You don't have to think about what a terribly boring day tomorrow is going to be at work. You just have to unravel your story through your character. They can feel whatever you like, whatever the story needs, and this disassociation from yourself, for me, helps me when I come back to the real world. Sometimes writing is just the sort of thinking time I need in order to process something stressful that was going on, or helps me see the other side of an argument a friend and I were having. I feel more well-rounded as a thinking human when I'm able to get some writing in.
Finally, I write to find something worth saying. So many books and movies and video games leave you with a lasting, resounding message that you can carry with you through the rest of your existence. I would like to have someone read a piece I wrote and come away from it thinking slightly different. Finding that 'something' is tricky. Sometimes it's not intentional, as with all forms of art, to a degree your work is subjective. I don't necessarily wish to seek fame or fortune, but if I can write something that resounds with others, something that one way or another motivates folks to do whatever their calling is, then I will consider myself a successful writer.
This is why I write. To help myself, to effect others, to change the world ever so slightly and have fun doing it.
Episode 30 of the Write Idea Workshop follows up with Justin's list of favorite reads of 2013, some authors he found pretty excellent, and some goals and aspirations for the coming year! Give it a listen! Lots of comic book talk also.
We're saying goodbye to 2013 with Episode 29 of The Write Idea Workshop!
This episode features the Top Five most Influential/Favorite Authors of 2013, and the Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2013, as well as some resolutions for the coming year and some schedule announcements.
Give it a listen and Keep on Writing!
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