From b4a35ebe7bfc4318ddaf520da555cba529488b56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:34:18 -0500 Subject: Add subtitles for Bala's talk --- ...structure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--03-idea-to-novel-superstructure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt (limited to '2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--03-idea-to-novel-superstructure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt') diff --git a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--03-idea-to-novel-superstructure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--03-idea-to-novel-superstructure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d3c34a79 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--03-idea-to-novel-superstructure-emacs-for-writing--bala-ramadurai.vtt @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +WEBVTT + +00:00:03.559 --> 00:00:09.200 +No, there is nothing wrong with your mobile  +device or your computer. This was how my world   + +00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:15.040 +was when my kid was born 11 years ago. + +00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:29.280 +Hello, I am Bala Ramadurai, author, professor  +and consultant. 11 years ago in Bangalore,   + +00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:41.120 +my son was born. My wife and I had hardly slept  +through those days. That's when my grandma   + +00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:48.560 +visited us to take a look at her great grandson.  +As joyous as that sounded, it came with a peril.   + +00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:55.840 +My grandma was a Scrabble addict. She hardly  +spent any time at all with her great grandson,   + +00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:02.720 +but she spent most of her time playing Scrabble.  +She insisted that my wife and I join her.   + +00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:07.840 +That's when an idea dawned on me to write about  +my Scrabble obsessed grandma. What if I could   + +00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:13.760 +make it into a novel. Not many people have  +Scrabble obsessed grandmothers, after all. + +00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:19.280 +I wanted to expand this to a novel, but did  +not know how. I bumped into Dan Wells' video   + +00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:28.960 +on 7-point story structure. I was now convinced  +that a seed idea could indeed be converted into   + +00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:34.480 +a novel, so I tried out many tools at the  +time - million dollar tools like MS Word,   + +00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.991 +Excel, Scrivener and the lot. In my research of  +tools, I found that George RR Martin famously   + +00:01:37.991 --> 00:01:40.320 +had used Wordstar for typing out Game of  +Thrones. At that point, I remembered about   + +00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:43.840 +an old editor - Emacs. I knew about Emacs from  +my undergrad days and my earlier software days.   + +00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:49.040 +Thanks to the emacs community and particularly  +the orgmode community, I had what I wanted. + +00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:55.680 +Now, it was time to put the idea into action.  +I used another method called snowflake and also   + +00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:05.360 +Tony Ballantyne's emacs writing template. The main  +features from org-mode that I used - fold, unfold,   + +00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:17.920 +columnview, tags, distraction-free writing  +experience, clocking, project tracking and export. + +00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:33.317 +Now, the demo. We start with the plotline (a one  +line summary of the story). Then we write out the   + +00:02:33.317 --> 00:02:34.160 +characters, describing them in detail. Write  +the main story arc, followed by the secondary   + +00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:35.920 +character story arcs. Here is where org-mode  +really scores. Move the points in the story   + +00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:43.920 +structure to form a coherent story. We  +get into location research. Write them   + +00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:56.800 +all out in the columns. Once you are satisfied,  +now scene design. Each point in the story   + +00:02:56.800 --> 00:04:09.040 +requires at least one scene. In columnview,  +you can see many things - Act, scene,   + +00:04:09.040 --> 00:05:09.680 +story point, location, POV or point of  +view. Make sure you finish this and read   + +00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:10.896 +the whole story if it makes sense. Now, create  +a project file to track your project and clock   + +00:05:10.896 --> 00:05:18.880 +your project to see how long it takes. I used  +a similar structure for my non-fiction book,   + +00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:25.520 +which I published recently, all  +written and edited in emacs-org-mode. + +00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:30.480 +Thanks to you guys at the community, I  +am now a published author and I plan to   + +00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:36.560 +publish and help other authors publish using this  +wonderful tool called emacs-org-mode. Thank You. -- cgit v1.2.3