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Mar. 20th, 2024
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/20/2230546/-Well-Of-Course-TFG-Is-Nervous
Good point. The mob will want its money. The diarist closes by saying that if they were Trump they'd be looking for some ready-made cash and a plastic surgeon.
Good point. The mob will want its money. The diarist closes by saying that if they were Trump they'd be looking for some ready-made cash and a plastic surgeon.
Sorry it's been a couple of weeks. Been super busy. This here is the weekly talkback for Gilda And Meek And The Un-Iverse. Read an issue, discuss it here.
My weekly article:
WHERE DID THE NARRATOR COME FROM?
Should I tell you the pretty lie that I invented the totally unique premise entirely myself with zero influences or inspiration, and my brilliant imagination is his sole parent? I don't think that's necessary. But even if I tell you where the idea came from you'll still see my Narrator is SO much more than that currently.
The Narrator started out as a combination of two Narrators from fiction. The first Narrator is the one from Arrested Development (voiced by Ron Howard). The thing I love about that show's Narrator was how omniscient he was and how he told the whole damn story with receipts. That specific conceit should have blown pop culture wide open and we've never seen it since instead? SHAAAME!
The other Narrator I took cues from is the unnamed storyteller from Stephen King's The Eyes Of The Dragon. I took a LOT from that story for The Pontue Legacy (including naming a King Roland) but the fact that the Narrator there offered opinions and context as the story went along can be seen in MY fictional construct.
But if my Narrator were just a combination of those two premises, although it would still be cool, he still wouldn't be the singularly unique framing structure he is. But I went a LOT farther than Howard and King did just in using the omniscience and opinionated storyteller. I have the Narrator often be an UNRELIABLE Narrator. A unique character in the story itself who goes through personal growth that's both shocking and noticeable. But the biggest way the Narrator blew the franchise wide open, and the thing makes him completely unlike any other Narrator, and The Un-Iverse unlike any other piece of fiction, is that this Narrator doesn't just offer opinions. He shares my writing PROCESS and intentions with the reader. Questions what I'm showing, and what the reader should take from it. He actually quite often details the history of the script he's Narrating, and how and why I came up with specific scenes. He's not JUST a fictional Narrator. He's simultaneously a behind-the-scenes documentarian.
And yes, this IS something I invented. I have never seen another story do anything like this as it's happening, and whether Gilda And Meek And The Un-Iverse is good or it sucks, I can definitely claim is it unlike any other work of fiction, and that I actually came up with a new angle.
Honestly though, if you think about it, the angle is NOT actually new or unique. You just don't see it in comics, books, TV or movies. But if you are ever sitting around a campfire telling stories, the guy holding the flashlight often takes similar contextual detours and talks about where they first heard what. When MY Narrator is revealing my thoughts and process, he is inviting the reader to be a conspirator in the story the same way the campfire teller tries to personally involve THEIR listeners in the bogus "but totally true" horror story. The Narrator elevates YOU and YOUR judgment as an equally important part of the story's point and messaging. The level of empowerment the Narrator gives you whenever he pulls back the curtain is unprecedented in fiction. However one tells a story, you supposedly should NOT ever tell one this way. Current Fiction stubbornly insists the only proper way to tell a great story is to make the reader believe the scenario. Saying it's fiction repeatedly supposedly kills the magic. But not only does the conceit of The Un-Iverse supposed existing out there in a Multiverse unconnected to our own make that complaint irrelevant (I repeatedly say it's fictional. I NEVER say it never happened anywhere). But I think MAKING the reader feel a part of the story's creation and how it goes down is a far bigger and more singularly unique piece of storytelling magic, if only because it's a rare magic trick that you haven't seen before.
If The Un-Iverse had taken off and spawned a bunch of meta imitators, it would less special. While it has so few readers (and fewer actual fans) it's one of the best kept storytelling secrets on the internet.
The Archive on BlogSpot
https://gildaandmeekandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-gilda-and-meek-and-un-iverse.html
Latest Issue:
9. Lace Doilies "47%" (Un-Iverse #65)
https://gildaandmeekandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/2024/03/9-lace-doilies-47-un-iverse-65.html
My weekly article:
WHERE DID THE NARRATOR COME FROM?
Should I tell you the pretty lie that I invented the totally unique premise entirely myself with zero influences or inspiration, and my brilliant imagination is his sole parent? I don't think that's necessary. But even if I tell you where the idea came from you'll still see my Narrator is SO much more than that currently.
The Narrator started out as a combination of two Narrators from fiction. The first Narrator is the one from Arrested Development (voiced by Ron Howard). The thing I love about that show's Narrator was how omniscient he was and how he told the whole damn story with receipts. That specific conceit should have blown pop culture wide open and we've never seen it since instead? SHAAAME!
The other Narrator I took cues from is the unnamed storyteller from Stephen King's The Eyes Of The Dragon. I took a LOT from that story for The Pontue Legacy (including naming a King Roland) but the fact that the Narrator there offered opinions and context as the story went along can be seen in MY fictional construct.
But if my Narrator were just a combination of those two premises, although it would still be cool, he still wouldn't be the singularly unique framing structure he is. But I went a LOT farther than Howard and King did just in using the omniscience and opinionated storyteller. I have the Narrator often be an UNRELIABLE Narrator. A unique character in the story itself who goes through personal growth that's both shocking and noticeable. But the biggest way the Narrator blew the franchise wide open, and the thing makes him completely unlike any other Narrator, and The Un-Iverse unlike any other piece of fiction, is that this Narrator doesn't just offer opinions. He shares my writing PROCESS and intentions with the reader. Questions what I'm showing, and what the reader should take from it. He actually quite often details the history of the script he's Narrating, and how and why I came up with specific scenes. He's not JUST a fictional Narrator. He's simultaneously a behind-the-scenes documentarian.
And yes, this IS something I invented. I have never seen another story do anything like this as it's happening, and whether Gilda And Meek And The Un-Iverse is good or it sucks, I can definitely claim is it unlike any other work of fiction, and that I actually came up with a new angle.
Honestly though, if you think about it, the angle is NOT actually new or unique. You just don't see it in comics, books, TV or movies. But if you are ever sitting around a campfire telling stories, the guy holding the flashlight often takes similar contextual detours and talks about where they first heard what. When MY Narrator is revealing my thoughts and process, he is inviting the reader to be a conspirator in the story the same way the campfire teller tries to personally involve THEIR listeners in the bogus "but totally true" horror story. The Narrator elevates YOU and YOUR judgment as an equally important part of the story's point and messaging. The level of empowerment the Narrator gives you whenever he pulls back the curtain is unprecedented in fiction. However one tells a story, you supposedly should NOT ever tell one this way. Current Fiction stubbornly insists the only proper way to tell a great story is to make the reader believe the scenario. Saying it's fiction repeatedly supposedly kills the magic. But not only does the conceit of The Un-Iverse supposed existing out there in a Multiverse unconnected to our own make that complaint irrelevant (I repeatedly say it's fictional. I NEVER say it never happened anywhere). But I think MAKING the reader feel a part of the story's creation and how it goes down is a far bigger and more singularly unique piece of storytelling magic, if only because it's a rare magic trick that you haven't seen before.
If The Un-Iverse had taken off and spawned a bunch of meta imitators, it would less special. While it has so few readers (and fewer actual fans) it's one of the best kept storytelling secrets on the internet.
The Archive on BlogSpot
https://gildaandmeekandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-gilda-and-meek-and-un-iverse.html
Latest Issue:
9. Lace Doilies "47%" (Un-Iverse #65)
https://gildaandmeekandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/2024/03/9-lace-doilies-47-un-iverse-65.html