Hi there! I'm William SRD, maker of those two Anbennar lore video essays from the last few years.
I am back with a third one, where I've narrated and animated the history of the empire from the year 1k all the way to 1444!
I hope you like dead Silmunas!
Pic 1 - Today (August 10th)
Pic 2 - July 10th
Pic 3 - June 23rd
Pic 4 - May 14th
Pic 5 - April 7th
Pic 6 - Pre February
Feeling like I've passed the awful in between now. I am finally free from Efron Jail.
To achieve the dream I must suffer through six months at minimum of people trying to convince me to join their high school musical.
(I keep telling them I'm 32)
A few months ago I put together a dirt cheap thrift shop/army surplus store Rogue Trader costume for my playthrough. It was basically just a jacket purchased at an army surplus store and a few costume scraps found in thrift shops and my renfaire stash.
I'm mediocre with photoshop, but with a few hours of playing with levels I managed to add enough fog and snow effects to mostly make the photos blend in with a snow world background.
For your next playthrough, consider being your own Rogue Trader! It was bizarrely immersive!
(P.S. hello to those who have recognized me in the wild!)
I'm a few months out from the release of my show, The Shade of Attlemoore, and I've promised an annotated script to my backers.
Currently the script is in a very casual format that prioritizes readability, which feels correct in my opinion to be what releases to the audience.
But on the other hand, it certainly feels more professional to reformat everything into BBC radio drama style: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/bbcradioscene.pdf
To me it feels less pleasant to read through, more focused on the production side of things, but that might just be a me thing.
What are your thoughts? How readable do you find 'official' radio script formatting to be?
There's a kind of unexamined bias we all have as writers that we're supposed to write novels. Most of us grow up reading them intensively, and they are what inspire us to get started. They are a pure distillation of what we do!
But it does you a poor service to constrain yourself to only novels, especially when you're just starting out, exploring your craft and coming to understand your own writing.
You will grow so much as a writer with each project you finish. It can REALLY slow down your ability to rapidly improve your skills if you lock yourself down for fifteen months writing a novel. Many people will find themselves surprised how much better they are at storytelling by the end of the same fifteen months if they wrote five smaller three month projects instead.
And that's before you consider that novels are just one STYLE of writing among many. You might discover you've been burning yourself out writing novels when your real talent is for screenplays, or comic books, or RPG materials, or serial fiction, ARGs or any number of other things.
Many other mediums require additional skills to your writing, its true. You might need art skills, narration skills, coding skills, analysis skills. But that's true of novels as well, where we all need to develop some mind numbing business skills after the novel is finished.
There are plenty of avenues on the internet where a clever writer can get their work in front of an audience in virtually any format.
So dont constrain yourself! Not every writer needs to be a novelist. Try some projects in different formats, and learn what works for you!
Hello! I've been returning to audio dramas over the last few months after a few years away from the genre. I was quite a rabid listener back in the day.
I'm a big fantasy fan in general, but part of why I fell out of Audio Dramas for such a long time is that my favorite genre didn't really have a lot of representation. I've always been a lover of that classic swords and sorcery high fantasy genre, and I really think audio dramas are a great format to deliver on them. Unfortunately, back when I was voraciously listening to audio dramas, most of the fantasy options were all on the goofy parody side of things, like the Once and Future Nerd. (not knocking it, it's just not for me.)
I've been listening to the Last Dance and I've been loving it so far! Still, those episodes wont last forever, so I'd love to be recommended some more stuff in that ballpark! (note: I don't have a big appetite for actual-plays)
Thanks so much!