TL;DW: "There's worldbuilding in my erotica!" "There's erotica in my worldbuilding!"

New writing tip aquired from James tullos: Don't end your horny chapters mid thrust.

@user-jy8np7zx3z

14 күн бұрын

nuh uh

The romance series thing, IMO, really only works when there's no overarching plot and the books are not intended to be read in order. Rather, they are all intended to be standalone books in a shared universe. Lindsay Sands' vampire romance books are a great example of this. There's a shared world and characters, but each novel is a fully standalone book, with no need to read any of the others or even to be aware of their existence, and even the tone of the books varies depending on the needs of the particular story she's telling-some are action/thriller romances, some are mystery romances, and some are comedic romances (this type, in particular, is one of her real strengths).

@milestrombley1466

Жыл бұрын

Ice Barbarians does that too.

@fuunosenshi

Жыл бұрын

Well, Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series does this and does it well enough. There's an overarching plot, and all the characters are still there, still interesting, and participating in the story. The Midnight breed series by Lara Adrian does it too, but not as well. Some characters do disappear. The point is, there are some series with an overarching plot that follow different couples and still manage to keep the overall plot interesting

@teslashark

Жыл бұрын

Though, wouldn't it spend too much effort on explaining the worldbuilding?

@fuunosenshi

Жыл бұрын

@@teslashark yeah, the first book can be a little heavy on the info in this type of series

@maledictionwolf

Жыл бұрын

@@teslashark it really depends on the specific subgenre. For example, paranormal romance typically has someone who isn't involved in the paranormal world being introduced to it, so the worldbuilding is a natural part of the story, and can be handled in different ways each book depending on the characters and how they respond. On the other hand, ones that are set in the "real world" typically don't require worldbuilding at all, just character introductions. Full-fledged fantasy romance is generally the most susceptible to the worldbuilding issue, since there's not a built-in way to introduce the world in each book.

But a story where (stereotypical meme version) "Karen" taking dead souls to hell could be interesting.

@marocat4749

Жыл бұрын

Also have a character that takes that role upon themelves to be able to get rid o karen doing it.

@Alias_Anybody

Жыл бұрын

"Die faster or I'll call the manager"

@Mecharnie_Dobbs

Жыл бұрын

6:01 I thought it was pronounced like "char" meaning "to burn" because in cosmology, Charon is a black moon.

11:12 "she's everything...he's ken" strikes again

Oh my god they have "House of Night" titles.

@sandequation2653

Жыл бұрын

Are you the real James Marshall

@JamesM1994

Жыл бұрын

@@sandequation2653 The one and only!

Bro looks absolutely amazing with that haircut whatt

@wnyduchess

Жыл бұрын

Frfr, not everyone can pull that off

This was not what I thought of when I saw "servants" and "fate"

@CelticGuardian7

22 күн бұрын

To be fair, the original VN of Fate/stay night (assuming you're making a joke about that) sure as heck had its sex scenes.

I agree that it is a romance series thing to have a series where each book focuses on a different set of characters - i really think its because people have a hard time writing books where characters are in a healthy stable relationship

Yeah it’s rains every other day here in Pittsburgh

Thought you were talking about the Japanese Fate series that has servants. Still an accurate title for it.

@jojolities

Жыл бұрын

lol same

@charallave1000

Жыл бұрын

They toned down the sex stuff for the anime, but yeah there's a shit ton of tension still

@marocat4749

Жыл бұрын

yes. Also ate can be surprising deep and historical accurate referencing.

@sanfransiscon

Жыл бұрын

As an avid Type Moon fan, this is 100% accurate.

@gigangreg7837

Жыл бұрын

I mean didn't the whole series start as an eroge

17:53 1 Non-generic title for book 3: "Seduced by death"

Charon's name pronunciation is a weird thing, in ancient and modern greek it is pronounced with a hard K sound so yeah it's said as Karen

@st0rmyTrash

Жыл бұрын

But the hard K does not prevent from pronouncing the "a" and the "o" not like in karen xD

@prcervi

Жыл бұрын

@@st0rmyTrash doesn't much matter if it's karen, karan, keran, or karon it all just ends up sounding like karen said with an accent

I do like this type of series that follow different couples, because I can just read the ones I want and ignore the others, mostly. However, they're usually just stories set in the same universe and the couples don't even know the others. No overarching plot. On the other hand, there are some series with an overarching plot that do well by the characters, and all of them show up for all the books, and are there during the final battle. The "Lords of the underworld" series by Gena Showalter is one of those. Don't start it unless you want to commit, though, it connects to two other unfinished series.

Ha, my 2 brothers married 2 sisters. We ragged on them about it endlessly. It should certainly have been brought up.

The romance series formula is not meant to be like a real plot series usually. From the ones I've read it's more like a series of standalones that throw in past characters as Easter eggs or fan service. You are meant to start each one like it's a totally new story. It's good fun if you're a fan of the author or the romance genre/subgenre (and if each installment is actually good obvi), but it's clearly not ideal for general audiences haha.

I hope you have an awesome day James. 🙂💐

@JamesTullos

Жыл бұрын

Thunk.

Dude getting hotter with every video

So... basically (going off the non-spoiler setting outline) it's "Dead Like Me" - but porn.

So their kids would be double first cousins? Weird.

8:05 I was listening to this in the bg then heard what sounded like my name all of a sudden and it freaked me out lol

you're my favorite booktuber

Thanks for the recommendation 😃

"Pittsburgh is a desert here, and it isn't in real life" (Citation needed)

I know this is a bit off topic but he’s very good looking. Nice review though as usual

Great video. One day I hope our kind host sees fit to read anything at all by R.A. Salvatore.

oh no missed about 50 episodes since Saddam and now he's all grown up 😢

Can you review Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley, The List of the Lost by Morrissey, Knockdown by William W and J.A. Johnstone, and/or all of Jessica Stranger's novels

unrelated but you look so good!

17:53 2 Multi-word title: "Bound For Heaven"

the first and third book sound the most interesting personally

Man that hoodie looks real cosy - where did you get it?!?!

this vid's thumbnail: no German sentence on it Me: *sad German noises* Well, then I just have to make up one myself. How about: "Warum so rallig?"

A lot of books youre talking about lately seem to have gang@%$# mentioned in them...just wierd how much it comes up in books.

@Mecharnie_Dobbs

Жыл бұрын

19:08

Oh yeah, really don't like the "every book in a series basically has entirety different characters"; Read a few like that and gave up on most of them, even changed my mind about reading certain series when i found out it had that.

Of course the book named 'Servants' of 'Fate' is really horny..

The sex scenes here are probably still better than a certain series involving Fate and Servants, to be fair. >_>

Since the Christians stole the idea of hell from the Greeks (tartarus), I wouldn't even say it is a mix. Just the original but a bit on the nose.

Honestly watching this video just reminded me how weird and confounding the Romance gente. I get that romantic love in both fiction and real lifecan be very weird and dramatic but seeing some people describe some those elements in fiction makes me wonder what goes through people heads when they are in love.

Reminds me of Yami No Matsuei. Good manga.....bit older, I guess. But less greek, more shinigami. But the same plot of people dying where they should not and that creating issues. I am sure there are, of course more differences but when you first described it in short it sounded exactly the same.

Because life is short and people are hot

There are a couple of standard English pronunciations of Charon but I don't think it really matters since they're both 'wrong' compared to what the actual pronunciation is. the ch should be an aspirated k sound, the a should be like the a in father but shorter, and the o should be like the ough in "thought" in General American English if you don't have the cot-caught merger.

@neoqwerty

Жыл бұрын

I don't get what an aspirated sound is and my brain constantly just goes "breathe in while saying this" and that, while making an interesting new kind of gasp and making me feel like I'm indeed aspirating something (a little bit of saliva instead of a k), doesn't sound like what I'm supposed to get. Do you have an idiotproof description of what I'm supposed to do to that k?

Changing the "Ch" sound to "K" is likely more authentic. It has pretty much been established that Latin and Old Greek didn't have "Ch," or "C" pronounced as "S" sounds, and would always be pronounced as a hard "K". But I hate that, that means "Circus" should be pronounced "Kirkus." I don't see that ever catching on.

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