Strangely, I put out an essay the day before you put this one out and I almost gave it the EXACT same title as you did here. But what's cool is we both had different approaches to this topic, yours being far more educated and well-spoken. Always happy to see stuff like this in my feed, and I wish I found this channel sooner. Huge respect for bringing awareness to the importance of fluidity in writing and not just marking checkboxes based on what works. It can be hard to feel like I'm worthy to write a good story, and I feel like sometimes I need to learn so much from the greats but forget to trust myself and trust the process. "we can't keep consulting roadmaps if we are exploring." Based af, beautiful.
Living in the U-turn arc now. Living my dream life. Still kinda empty and trying to fill it with writing. Genuinely thanks for your videos I discovered them recently and am rationing them out to myself. Your insight is extremely on point and I'm telling the friends who I know will get something out of it to give you a follow.
I would argue a story is an inorganic account of events relayed for a purpose beyond the events themselves IE the opposite of documentary or biographical recordings. It doesn't even necessarily need to be about or even involve characters. It happens when a thesis or theme is relayed through the events rather than merely being "about" the events, which is why I think the fundamental question of storytelling is "why", not "what", "who" or "how". In many ways, it's similar to everyday communication. If a friend or significant other approaches you to tell you about a nice or frustrating thing that happened at work, very rarely is the substance of that found in what happened. There's a subtextual reason that fuels the process, a desire to share a moment, to relay a feeling, to receive validation, or to entertain. It's those motivations, those underlying currents of thoughts that drive the process of manufacturing a narrative, that turns the relaying of "what happened" into something more, into a story rather than a vacuous series of dead facts. It's first when an author has something they want to say, a reason to say something, that they can begin to craft a series of events that support that desire, vision, thesis or theme.
Great video! I think one punch man could be a good example of a u-turn arc (?) The main character got what he always wanted but it didn't make him happy, in fact he became less happy than ever. It's nice reading the manga and seeing how he's slowly starting to find happiness in other things, sometimes in those that he found annoying/boring at first, I really love this story
hey Josh im a huge fan of your content! totally unrelated but would you happen to have the music you used in your tarot praxis video? thanks in advance!
I sometimes put the title of the film in the bottom right corner, but there were just so many clips in this one and I got a little lazy. Let me know the time stamp in the video and I can tell you what film it's from! Thanks so much for commenting!
Finally someone on the internet appreciating the story and characters of lost. Such a fantastic show, but people just repeat the meme that it has bad writing. It just got put on Netflix, give it a try.
0:31 no. stories have no such narrowly defined structure. "one fucking thing after another" is more accurate. it's an abstraction of things that happen in time, as opposed to other things like objects, concepts, or nonsensical word salads. i hate these stupid narrow restrictions of things that are more abstract and broad
@@hanumananky abstraction is the platonic concept of a process in which some essence is taken out of an existing concrete thing. if you don't understand this, it is not a big deal. abstract is the english adjective, and i don't think there is anything to explain. narrow and broad describe the fact that broad categories include more things than narrow categories. for example, cups are narrow, containers are broad
@@hanumananky a story exists on a medium. a book, a movie, a video game. but they are physical/digital instantiations of the story with extra stuff added. when you extract just the story, that's the abstraction. one can describe that extracted story using words, but those are mere descriptions, and the story itself is an abstract object with no physical, digital, or mental substrate
@@hanumananky they may or may not involve any process of change, but they do necessarily involve the flow of specifically time. time almost always involves change, but that's just a contingency of human experience, imagination, and laws of our universe. i am, however, starting to question if the flow of time is really a nevessarily defining feature of stories, or if this is also a mere contingency of human experience imagination, and laws of the universe
I’d watch the hell out of whatever story you decide to tell
I have never… NEVER… heard Jack’s character explained so well. So glad I watched this video and thank you so much for putting it together.
You’re just the best man. Hope the algorithm blesses you.
Wow my U tube algorithm works perfectly Found a new underrated channel Love and support from india 🇮🇳❤
Your videos are always so educational
Phenomenal work, thank you.
Strangely, I put out an essay the day before you put this one out and I almost gave it the EXACT same title as you did here. But what's cool is we both had different approaches to this topic, yours being far more educated and well-spoken. Always happy to see stuff like this in my feed, and I wish I found this channel sooner.
Huge respect for bringing awareness to the importance of fluidity in writing and not just marking checkboxes based on what works.
It can be hard to feel like I'm worthy to write a good story, and I feel like sometimes I need to learn so much from the greats but forget to trust myself and trust the process. "we can't keep consulting roadmaps if we are exploring." Based af, beautiful.
Living in the U-turn arc now. Living my dream life. Still kinda empty and trying to fill it with writing.
Genuinely thanks for your videos I discovered them recently and am rationing them out to myself. Your insight is extremely on point and I'm telling the friends who I know will get something out of it to give you a follow.
I would argue a story is an inorganic account of events relayed for a purpose beyond the events themselves IE the opposite of documentary or biographical recordings.
It doesn't even necessarily need to be about or even involve characters. It happens when a thesis or theme is relayed through the events rather than merely being "about" the events, which is why I think the fundamental question of storytelling is "why", not "what", "who" or "how".
In many ways, it's similar to everyday communication. If a friend or significant other approaches you to tell you about a nice or frustrating thing that happened at work, very rarely is the substance of that found in what happened. There's a subtextual reason that fuels the process, a desire to share a moment, to relay a feeling, to receive validation, or to entertain. It's those motivations, those underlying currents of thoughts that drive the process of manufacturing a narrative, that turns the relaying of "what happened" into something more, into a story rather than a vacuous series of dead facts.
It's first when an author has something they want to say, a reason to say something, that they can begin to craft a series of events that support that desire, vision, thesis or theme.
Dude amazing writing like damn you hit it right on the head I feel the same way that’s why I’m so draw to it cuz it’s in our dna to tell stories
Categories are a great way to organize your thoughts.
Great video! I think one punch man could be a good example of a u-turn arc (?) The main character got what he always wanted but it didn't make him happy, in fact he became less happy than ever. It's nice reading the manga and seeing how he's slowly starting to find happiness in other things, sometimes in those that he found annoying/boring at first, I really love this story
Josh from xboxlive has exquisite taste in films to demonstrate his point (especially Popeye)
hey Josh im a huge fan of your content!
totally unrelated but would you happen to have the music you used in your tarot praxis video? thanks in advance!
Thank you so much, and yes! It's Akira Yamaoka - White Lies, ruclips.net/video/LJ7AzCllUAk/видео.htmlsi=r3xclo00ECJt6f4V
10:26 - “Butt.” 😂
Just found this channel and I’m already a huge fan. I’d love to talk shop about writing with you some time!
Keep ur consistency 💥
woah
So. Good.
For the algorithm
Hey one help can u mention the list of movie names in this video??
I sometimes put the title of the film in the bottom right corner, but there were just so many clips in this one and I got a little lazy. Let me know the time stamp in the video and I can tell you what film it's from! Thanks so much for commenting!
Finally someone on the internet appreciating the story and characters of lost. Such a fantastic show, but people just repeat the meme that it has bad writing. It just got put on Netflix, give it a try.
Why do people hate Jack? He’s one of my favorite characters in the show
who is aktaj?
0:31 no. stories have no such narrowly defined structure. "one fucking thing after another" is more accurate. it's an abstraction of things that happen in time, as opposed to other things like objects, concepts, or nonsensical word salads. i hate these stupid narrow restrictions of things that are more abstract and broad
what is abstract? and what is broad? how are you using these words?
what do you mean when you say 'abstraction of things happening in time'?
@@hanumananky abstraction is the platonic concept of a process in which some essence is taken out of an existing concrete thing. if you don't understand this, it is not a big deal. abstract is the english adjective, and i don't think there is anything to explain. narrow and broad describe the fact that broad categories include more things than narrow categories. for example, cups are narrow, containers are broad
@@7lllll does an abstraction of things happening over time demonstrate the process of change, or flow?
@@hanumananky a story exists on a medium. a book, a movie, a video game. but they are physical/digital instantiations of the story with extra stuff added. when you extract just the story, that's the abstraction. one can describe that extracted story using words, but those are mere descriptions, and the story itself is an abstract object with no physical, digital, or mental substrate
@@hanumananky they may or may not involve any process of change, but they do necessarily involve the flow of specifically time. time almost always involves change, but that's just a contingency of human experience, imagination, and laws of our universe. i am, however, starting to question if the flow of time is really a nevessarily defining feature of stories, or if this is also a mere contingency of human experience imagination, and laws of the universe