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A new show on Geek and Sundry - Help Pat Rothfuss name it
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hmm stories are us, tales are us, are you sitting comfortably ?, story corner, novel niche, novel nouveau...hmm its a hard one..good job im no writer lol...im very very excited about the show though!
I suggested on his wordpress comments maybe "Writer's Block".Also I threw a link over to this post on the comments there too.
I like it too. I missed on his comments though where it had already been suggested.
Hmmm, bards tell stories. I keep returning to the word "tales". Of Tales and (something). Quite hard
ooh writers block or bards tales something like that
"But Wait There's More" is the first thing that came to mind.
"The Unlemmables"? that one might require too much explanation for the uninitiated.maybe "The Scribblers"
This is where Pat needs someone like Neil Gaiman to come up with a title, he's perfect at this sort of thing.Although Gaiman's brilliant at most things to be fair. :D
I quite like Writers Block, something along those lines would be good, like "Writing Tales".
Joseph wrote: "This is where Pat needs someone like Neil Gaiman to come up with a title, he's perfect at this sort of thing.Although Gaiman's brilliant at most things to be fair. :D
I quite like Writers Block,..."
When you mentioned Gaiman, my mind went directly to "Dream Hunters" After all, it is what writers do in a sense, isn't it?
Then from Gaiman, my mind wondered to great Mr. Alan Moore and the philosophical realm that he called "İdeaspace", which is basically where the stories come from.
http://powerofmyth.livejournal.com/22508.html
Using a term that someone else invented might not seem teribly original but I believe watchers will appreciate the usage of this complex concept and what it represents as a name of a show about storytelling.
what about calling it "The Inklings" after the writing group that both Lewis and Tolkien were a part of where he wrote the Hobbit. Or is that plagiary?
Annals of Annals, Bibliosophy or Scoop of Yarn ?
I posted these suggestions over at Pat's blog but since I feel as if I belong to the Sword and Laser community, I thought I'd repost them here.* Into Story
* Tell me a story
* Down the rabbit hole
* Talking stories
* Beyond words
* Story all the way down
* How to make the puppet dance
* Let there be story
* Tilting at story-mills
* Geography of story
* Cookies and creativity
* Tapping Tale (too suggestive?)
* Making story
* Story wrangling
* Whale of a tale
The Talesmith?Laborastory? [pronounced Karloff-style: la-BORA-story]
Im liking story wrangling, beyond words and down the rabbit hole from your list casey :)
How about a riff on what you said, "It's all story, you see."?
All About the Story
All in the Story
It's All About the Story
(Now that I wrote "story" so many times, the word is starting to look a little weird to me...)
All About the Story
All in the Story
It's All About the Story
(Now that I wrote "story" so many times, the word is starting to look a little weird to me...)
Sharon wrote: "How about a riff on what you said, "It's all story, you see."?All About the Story
All in the Story
It's All About the Story
(Now that I wrote "story" so many times, the word is starting to look ..."
I like All in the story :)
Well, the best so far seem to be "Writer´s block." (from the thread in Pat´s blog)The plural meanings fit so well into a concept of helping authors craft a story, as well as being a hangout for writers in general.
Based on Pat Rothfuss' books: "tl;dr" >:)
Ok, I'll say the obvious one..."The name of the story..."
or
"In the name of the story..."
André
I also like Writer's Block. It's clever and has double meanings.
Writer's Block seems too close to Writing Excuses (a podcast about writing sff).
Writer's Block is good, but would lead me to expect the show to be focused solely on novel writing techniques rather than storytelling in general.How about To Tell a Tale? That would appeal to me, and seems to sum up the show, but then, I thought of it, so maybe that's why I like it. :P
The AnnalsIt can fit one definition of the term and the book itself inspired writing and storytelling, not to mention was a primary source to teach people to read and write for centuries, and it sounds kinda cool.
Tale Spin? Will throw out more later.
Jonathan wrote: "Tale Spin? Will throw out more later."
Tale Spin--that's pretty good. I like it best so far- better than mine, even.
Tale Spin--that's pretty good. I like it best so far- better than mine, even.
Jonathan wrote: "Tale Spin? Will throw out more later."Oh-ee-yay, Tale Spin!
Oh-ee-oh, Tale Spin!
Friends for life through thick and thin, it's another Tale Spin!
Art of the AnecdoteNarrativity
Tell Tales
I like Talesmith best among the suggestions. It has a sense of shaping a story, not just novels but stories told using different media as well. It sums up the intended show quite well.
I think it should be "Storytime with Pat". :)
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From Pat Rothfuss blog:
So… yeah. I’m going to be doing a show on Geek and Sundry. I get to go play with the cool kids.
It’s going to be a series of hour-long discussions about storytelling. We’ll probably focus on novels a bit, because that’s where I live and breathe. But I have plans to talk about other types of stories too. I want to bring in people to talk about storytelling in videogames. In comics. On the web. On TV.
It’s all story, you see.
So that’s the good news. We’re doing this. It’s going to be cool.
The bad news is that I have no fucking idea what to call the show.
I originally pitched it as Storytelling 101. But I knew that was a shit title as soon as I came up with it. It’s boring. Plus cliche.
I’ve been wracking my brain for a month now, and I still haven’t been able to come up with something I like.
You see, names are important things, or so I hear. I’d like to have a really good one for my show. I’d like something catchy, clear, and a little bit sexy….
But so far, everything I’ve come up with has been mostly crap.
Writer’s Roundtable? - Clear enough, but lacks panache.
Ars Fabula? – Slightly clever, but mostly wankerish.
Narratavores? – Confusing AND wankerish.
Wheaton’s show, Tabletop, has a great title. It’s clever. It’s catchy. And most of all, it’s informative.
UPDATE: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2012/...