We’re movie stars! Okay, not so much, but we’ve got an official YouTube channel now. Here’s our “icebreaker” video (watch to the end for our blooper):
Transcript for Episode 01 – Icebreaker
R: Hi, I’m RaeLea.
F: And, I’m Frank.
R: Welcome to the first episode of our video journal. Well, first we’re going to discuss why are we doing a video journal?
F: Good question.
R: Thank you.
F: Yeah. It’s like we planned this. So, we were talking about wanting to interact with our readers and our fans and writing blog articles are great, but the videos are kind of a way we can, um, show people behind the scenes. And, kind of give them a little bit of an idea of who we are. So.
R: A little bit of that flash and awe?
F: Oh, yeah. We’re full of flash and awe. Exactly. A little bit of that, exactly.
R: Great. Well, why a video and not a blog?
F: Ok, well, we are blogging. We are writing our articles, but our priority when we’re writing is to write fiction. To write our stories. So, if we’re writing blog articles, it means we’re not writing our stories. And, so, the video is a little bit if a way we can, um, use a little bit of a different part of our creative muscles to show a little behind the scenes.
R: K. So, what can our viewers expect, to, for us to talk about?
F: Okay. So, some of the things we talked about were kind of our inspiration, our writing technique, a little bit of, um, how we come up with the characters. Our ideas, our writing process.
R: Some of those, ‘oh, wow’ moments.
F: Exactly. The euphonies. And, just getting to know who we are as writers, too. So, hopefully, they can kind of see what we are like off the page and behind the story.
R: I don’t know if that’s a good thing.
F: That might not be a good thing. We’ll find out. We’ll leave it up to you guys.
R: Yes. Alright. So, is it going to always be in our home office, or are we going to go on field trips?
F: Field trips. Yeah.
R: Yeah!
F: She likes to travel, I’m a hermit.
R: He is. Not even a hermit wanna-be.
F: Yeah. I’m a hermit. If it was up to me, we would stay home and probably not see humans at all. So, I guess, I’m not even an introvert, I’m a hermit. Um, field trips. We were talking about when we go out to do research in the field a lot of our stories are taking place in North Dakota so we’re going to take day trips around the state. And take photos, probably video, and maybe talk with you, our fans, about the real places. The real people behind some of these stories.
R: Well, and those places are cities in, that are Minot, where one of the series is from. And, South Heart.
F: Absolutely. For our first one, Fog over Mandaree, which takes place in part of the Reservation, the Fort Berthold Reservation, so, we’ll probably go up there and show the drilling rig where you and I met.
R: Yes!
F: And show the terrain that we hiked. And that type of thing.
R: Perfect. Well, how often are we going to be doing these videos?
F: Okay. Well, ideally, we’ll be doing these once a week, but, we’ll see if we can keep up with that.
R: And, they’re going to be fairly short.
F: True, true.
R: So, I guess, most importantly, you and I, are we going to have fun doing these?
F: Ah, is there any other way? If we don’t laugh every once in a while, then it’s not really us.
R: Perfect, perfect. Well, um, I think that’s about it for this video. Thank you for joining us, and, on our first video.
F: Thanks a lot, see you next time.
R: Alright.