Today's Topic Finding the Balance needed in your fantasy story
Curiosity is one three most import tools in my Worldbuilder’s toolbox. Here is my mini list in order.
- Curiosity
- Gratitude
- Attitude
- Creativity
- Listening Skills
You are asking, Why Gratitude First?”
I have been in an improving place in my life, emotionally speaking. And in so I have been reflecting on what has changed. And more importantly, what is working for me right now that makes me be a better worldbuilder and honestly gratitude was a surprise.
Gratitude ranks so high because it directly helps me with my world-building skills. So, join Michael and I as we look Gratitude. We would be grateful… sorry I had to say it.
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- Even in an imperfect world focus on what works helps keep us happy
- Motivation (Realizing the Impact)
- Helps Family and Friends with buy-in
- The Three Reasons gratitude is powerful in worldbuilding
- Reason’s Jeff is great full
- Understanding wife
- Grateful for Jeff
- Grateful that I am better than Jeff in all things
- Financial Stability
- Having time to do the fun stuff
- Michaels Reasons
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Read a book or world religions… yep and this makes sense to anyone who is like me as a worldbuilder
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Take Five minutes be present and look for ways to be more grateful in your life
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Today's Topic Downtime for Worldbuilders
Recently, I was recording an episode for why Downtime is important on my other podcast The Small Biz Life. It is something I am passionate about because I want to be present in my life, I work ten hour days at my day job, Kristin and I are creating a media company, I volunteer time every week, plus I am writing a novel for NaNoWriMo. I love everything I do. However, I do not have extra hours in the week so I strategically use downtime. Downtime like a fine wine helps cleanse the palate of mind. I use it to get a better understanding of the world, which allows me to create more detail into my worlds. Downtime helps me learn from literature effective ways to deliver stories.
Downtime like a fine wine helps cleanse the palate of mind.
When your work day gets longer. You will run into a couple of major issues.
First, you will lose productivity when you switch between completely different types of tasks. For Example, If I am meeting with someone about requirements for an upcoming project and then after the meeting I try and write a chapter for my fantasy novel, I will struggle. I will have trouble letting go of the details of the meeting, which will make it harder to get into the minds of the characters. I will also struggle with the types of words needed to keep the feel of my novel. The actual act of writing will be slower.
Now, I will try and deal with this when scheduling my time. However, So times life will force you to schedule radically different task next to each other. When they do, I will take a break. I will jam out to some incredible music that makes me want to move. In the span of a five-minute break, I can free my mind of the last task and be more open to the next. I will get more writing do in a shorter period of time.
Now Join Michael and I as we look at the was to use downtime in your favor as a worldbuilder.
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Downtime is essential in making us productive
EPISODE 60 – DOWNTIME IS IMPORTANT
Most important factor should be relaxing the mind, body, and emotional stress of life
Worldbuilding bonus we can be inspired and relax at the same time.
Move it move it
Board Games with wife
High Art
Classic Literature
Video Games
3x, Strategy, tactic, RPG (Never shooters)
Great movies
Theater
Music
Great magazines
Watch out to make sure you do not overindulge
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The Worldbuilder’s Task For The Day
Look at your downtime, what helps you relax or improve your creativity.
The Real-World task for the day
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Work on your word count!
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Today's Topic – Music for focus, energy, and increasing productivity.
Music set to "Ruckus in B Minor". Why? It helps me focus. I struggle to focus. I have no diagnosis, it has just been something that I have had to learn to deal with in my life. For me Music is on of the best ways that I use to control the noise in my head.
Having an army of Orcs raiding my mind, is something that never stops. It is much better than thinking about the real world at times. I can see the battles. I hear the conversation between characters. However, when I need to accomplish something. I need to control the focus. Now, understand I do not believe all music can help all people focus. You must always understand your Anthems, from the music you like to listen to while I am trying to focus
Anthems Vs Working Music
Anthems are the music I jam out to. There are certain songs that when I listen to I must sing too, play air too, or play air drums too. I use this music to effect mood, jump start energy, or relax. However, the music I work too, will have a rhythm that will help me drowned out most of the noise that distracts me. Now it can be very similar. “Bring the Ruckus” is an anthem that I cannot focus when I listen too. Now, I listen to a lot more than Wu-Tang Clan. However, what works for me will not work for me, might not work for you.
Check out this episode and learn the works for Michael and me when using music to write. Music effects us differently. He uses video without sound to focus, something that would fail for me. Let us know how you use music, and what you do to focus.
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- Music Therapy 73 trails and over 7000 patients
- Alleviates
- Manage Stress
- Enhances Memory
- Reduces pain medication
- Boosting mood (Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI))
- Improves music skills, communication skills, friendships, and collaboration skills
- Tested on people with detention effect work for me
- Can be used to get your mind into the proper mindset to run
- Music to make me angry
- Sad
- happy
- Helps focus
- Helps the conscious and Unconscious mind pay attention, especial the emotional
- Wu Tang
- Helps with energy and Productivity
- Thanks dopamine
- Beethoven, basically any EDM, Thrash Metal
- What to beware
- Music you are forced to sing along with (Back fire)
- You might look a little crazy to people who do not know you.
- Your Boss might not allow music
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Work on your word count!
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Work on your focus, let us know what works.
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Today's Topic – Some more horror flicks to help you get through NaNoWriMo
Nothing like a great horror flicks to take your minds off the problems in the real world. Have a good fright tonight to keep you focused on the prize of 50,000 words in a month. In a way this is an extension of episode 146. It does not follow the exact pattern. We really talk about movies that frighten us. The moves that work really really well for us, or possibly the movies that.
All jokes aside. It was really the Omen that worked for me. I think it is by far one of them most frightening things I have ever encountered in fiction. If you have not seen it. You should really take advantage of it. After you finish your world count, take a break this even, after dark of course and take in this classic.
For more suggestions and a lot more fun check out this episode. Watch Michael shine at one of his great skills, watching and then breaking down moves.
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Episode 146 We are going to give you the Frighteners
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