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A Few Words About Our Writing Process

The internet is good for nothing if not oversharing, and writers love nothing more than talking about themselves and hoping that other people find it interesting. With that in mind, we will periodically supplement your listening pleasure with snippets about the creative process that gets THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD gets from our brains to your ear holes.

This week’s fact, which we hope you’ll find interesting, is this: Every chapter of THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD starts as a television script with no narration, and is only later adapted to the audio play format that you hear. This was kind of out of our control at first, but now I’m really glad it’s turned out this way.


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The Tragic History of House Guernatal

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THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF HOUSE GUERNATAL

OK…well, only the past 16-some-odd years have been tragic.  House Guernatal has been the ruling family of Iorden for 700 years, since the White Forest Concordat.  That document, penned and guaranteed by the Th’ura Akbyyr (the Elven High Council), granted House Guernatal sovereign rule over the lands of man.  It also stipulated that the Th’ar lo-Hyyl, the famed Elven Knights of the Wood, would protect the human rulers of Iorden from all enemies.  Most of Guernatal’s reign has been a peaceful, prosperous time…at least as far as these things can be expected.

King Gunther Guernatal has held the throne for most of his 66 years of life.  He once had a son, Prince Uther.  Uther was, by all accounts, an excellent prince, and would have made an excellent ruler of the kingdom.  Tall and handsome, brave, kind to lords and servants alike, clever, and so on, and so on.

Prince Uther disappeared 16 years ago
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So what is this “Bonus Content” stuff anyways?

Can’t get enough of The Once And Future Nerd?  Well, allow me to explain the concept of Bonus Content!

Podcasts are an awesome medium for storytelling (at least the way we do podcasts…and storytelling for that matter).  Sometimes though, you just want to give your audience more.  Which brings us to BONUS CONTENT!  Bonus content is an opportunity to do some things that don’t fit into the main podcast.  It will usually take the form of either writing or art.  However, as things go on, bonus content may also include some audio files for out-takes, some Mailbag / “AMA”-type segments, or, really, whatever the hell else we feel like.
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