In an 1988 BBC interview from Mr. Awdry himself that best summarizes his writing style, “When you are writing a children’s book, you’re writing for a whole lot of people; you’re writing for yourself, to make sure you got it researched right, you’re writing for the unfortunate parents who’ve got to read it aloud, time after time after time after time, you gotta put in subtle little funny bits, subtle bits which they’ll enjoy and then there’s the simple slapstick stuff which the child will enjoy.” I definitely believe that the writing techniques that Wilbert Awdry created is the core reason why the books became a success and is so beloved by both kids and adults. It’s dedication to realism as it grew from being simple bedtime stories for kids to a fully fleshed out world that taught valuable life lessons to kids and even adults themselves as the series went on and THAT is what made it special.
A big thing I noticed that always seems absent in most other stories is the engines and rolling stock dialogue sounds how you would imagine it in real life. Thats what would stick out to me in the TVS (when not using rws stories).
@@Keaness I'm having a hard time imagining anything but the "cylinder dialogue" repetition like "Come, on, come, on, come, on" (Or occasionally the "wheel slip dialogue" like "don't be silly don't be silly don't be silly!") when I read this comment. But since it often got cut from Railway Series stories when they were adapted to the show, I'm not sure that's what you're referring to (And the possibility that you're referring to accuracy to the British dialect seems a little Farfetch'd, since I'm sure there are other stories that also get that right). Could you please clarify?
@@lnerb1class1415 yeah I tend to write long paragraphs that I can’t really help myself, although I tried to make it shorter I think it’s mainly the words that Awdry said that made it long for you or other people to read. I mean you don’t EXACTLY have to read all of it but hey you do you.
I find it hilarious how every time I manage to learn more evidence that Awdry was a huge petty hater before it was cool “There is no way an accident like that could happen” (proceeds to whip out standby collection of contradicting evidence) He’s such an entertaining character in his own ways
A more positive way of looking at it was that lots of kids were paying attention to the stories and cared enough about them to raise concerns about apparent inconsistencies (And enough parents cared about putting their kid's mind's to rest that they paid for stamps). Not everybody sending these letters was out to try to expose Awdry; many of them were children who considered questions like "Could Percy really have perched on that truck" as not unlike "Where does Toby keep his coal" or "Why does my mom keep saying the engine in this illustration is Henry! Please help me! All the details suggest it's Gordon!" They were writing to the Reverend for answers, not to put him down, and the Reverend was happy to oblige (He was not, however, happy with the role Dalby played in... er-herm... "augmenting his correspondence").
This will definitely come in handy for both those who are just starting out in writing stories or who already write stories but are also looking for tips on how to improve.
This will be a helpful video for beginners just starting to write Thomas stories, I’m pretty sure I know the basics of it but it doesn’t hurt to learn more
As someone like myself who's been hard at work at a train-themed book the last year, I've learned a lot since starting and this video sums up some of the stuff I've done. Atm though I am still struggling a bit but I'm learning things as I go and I do hope once my book is published people will enjoy it as those who have seen bits of it have been very positive about it. Not to mention I learned some stuff I didn't know about Wilbert Awdry in the video which I'm always happy to learn about. Also, Kudos to the Awdry family for sharing this info during this year's Extravaganza at the Talyllyn Railway as this is something I'm sure many fans have been wanting to know for years.
Ah, I can confirm brevity, choice of words, and to some extent, consistency are challenging, I often draw short-panel anime comics, and my biggest challenge is to make the information as clear as possible with the shortest possible sentences. I can understand that when writing a script, I had to cut unnecessary words to make it less crowded on execution. For consistency, there was a little joke I put in my older comic that I made just for fun, and then I realized Im stuck with that, another example was when I hadn't looked at the map, I drew a comic taken beside the sea, it's not until way later that I realize, the place I'm based my work on is nowhere near the sea, so I ended up having to make an entirely fictional place just because of that single comic, and yes, I made a map for my world, not as complex as Sodor of course, just sort of base of operation based on real-world place, but I have some map ready as a reference when I want to draw another 4-panel comic, or comic in general.
Everyone at Mattel should know how desperate we the fans need and want a good Thomas story/maybe movie if it can be done right. I am working on a Thomas movie script right now! And it’s based off the first four railway series books with the title “The Adventures of Thomas” and it has human characters that are sir StopHam Hatt’s family like his wife lady Hatt and two kids Stephen and Bridgett. I can not tell you any more about this film but I can assure you. Fans will eat it up and adore it! 🚂
I feel like the reason Marc Forster's live action Thomas film is taking so long in making is because the writers are genuinely considerably researching or studying the lore and concept of the franchise, with the director Marc himself is also dealing with this process to make a better script for the film; that's why it's taking so long for them to even release a teaser trailer; if I'm honest.
I have a strange feeling that we will see the Thomas and Friends Movie trailer this December or February next year for the 80th anniversary, but who knows.
@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 yeah! That could work! However. You might wanna be a lucky fan and interview Forster during his promoting of the new Thomas movie for white bird! I have been somewhat keeping track of his stuff lately and saw a man called Otto and rewatched Christopher Robbin! He could pull it off right if he takes a good read at a few of the railway series. If not, then I have better plans, in fact. I have a prequel script I’ve been working on!
@@Anchovistic I Wouldn’t be surprised if that happened. But I also wouldn’t be shocked if the movie doesn’t happened either In general! Witch has been done before with hit entertainment promising is a movie called “The Adventures of Thomas”. And it never came for wishing. However. If Marc Forster’s Thomas Movie gets released and fails like TATMR did, then I have an amazing script serving as a prequel that I’ve been working on lately! I think you Thomas/railway series will love this one!
@@Offcialjacobpacewells Also, I know what had happened to the canceled TAOT film. Hope the Marc's one doesn't, though. I REALLY want to see the theatrical Thomas film on the big screen!
I hope the "Kar Key" ad was more sarcasm than satire. Also, this video was just what I needed. I forgot to write down the reverend's brevity rules when I had The Thomas The Tank Engine Man checked out from my church's library, and I've had some fan story ideas featuring Gordon and the first new-built steam engine in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, Tornado.
This makes me appreciate Awdry so much omg, no wonder he always got pissed when the TVS broke a rule or changed HIS story around, because it took him soooo long to perfect and with them just changing it on a whim would be so infuriating.
I like how you can use these rules for writing in general. It's always nice learning that even masters who make great works still struggle behind the scenes but to the outside we think they just do it on the first try with little thought. Practice and consistency is what made great story tellers like him.
I've written down every 5 rules on how to make good thomas stories on my old book, thank you thomas theorist, with this video, now i can make better stories.
It was so cool learning Awdry's writing style as it's the backbone of what made the stories so good and enjoyable. Hopefully people can learn from this *cough Mattel* when making their own stories
As somebody writing his own Thomas stories and feels like he's spinning his wheels in the process this was really inspiring thanks Adam and thank you Awdry
3:54 picked the image of the wrong Hawes junction crash. *Yup were several.* Interestingly enough: 1) there'd a song about the crash in the image, Ais Gill by Dave Goulder. 2) the incident that inspired James' turntable fiasco also happened at Hawes junction!
It's always fascinating to see how different writers work. Everyone has a different style and workflow, and of course everyone needs to keep their audience in mind.
It's interesting to think about how many generations have grown up with the railway series or Thomas in some way. And that if the change in quality of writing has produced different kinds of adults through out the years.ie does the way stories are presented to kid effect there development.
Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher Awdry are my first favorite writers and these details he did are interesting. Luckily, I write my own Thomas and Friends stories, which each takes place today, during my spare time since 2017 and I think I'm starting understand this. So I'll try these tips and hopefully I could one day in the future post them to let the others adapt them with the very lines I wrote.
This video was very helpful for me. I'm planning on writing some of my own Thomas stories in the future so this could really help as I have a few ideas in the works.
As an aspiring author of my own island railway series, my plan is not only making my stories cute and sweet, but also make them chunked enough to keep kids and other readers salified and entertained. I also plan maybe either conjoin them into 1-2-3-character story book (Like three characters stories in one book) or conjoin all the stories in one, I'm personally thinking of adding the 1-2-3-character story idea. But I won't stop writing, I love writing stories for all my characters. They all have unique personalities and stories to each and every one of them.
On the real railway it was a safety rule that said if a train waa stopped at a signal, one I'd the crew had to walk to a railway telephone box or the signal box to check with the signalman why they'd stopped, and that their train was protected by other signals.
I remember on your S25 Thomas continued video that some of your ideas were similar to mine. Though the only problem I had with them was knowing how to come up with a solution to the story's plot, problem or conflict.
The bad episodes of HIT wasn't all Miller's fault. HIT probably just enforced the 3 strike formula to get more more money off of Thomas. Miller's work like The Great Discovery, Blue Mountain Mystery, and Hero of the Rails were good.
I did some research on the original “Once an engine attached to a train was afraid of a few drops of rain”. It’s a poem found in a children’s literature book, which I believe was written in 1902. Pretty cool how somebody wrote this and had no idea that it would help shape the biggest train franchise in the world. Unfortunately I could not find the name of the book. Would anyone happen to know?
When I rewrite some the Hit Era stories, I think about the original, I switch characters, add few textures, and I make it more original just like from the books and original show.
This is great advice for writers like me because I am currently writing a fanfiction about Sodor (not what you imagine) where it involves the human side of the island of Sodor. Slices of life beyond the rails if you will. And I might need some help with it since there aren’t any human-only stories about Sodor😅
I got burned out from Thomas fan stories most for 1 reason, the karma formula: Character says something stupid or doesn't believe or is warned of something, then karma strikes and supposedly learned a lesson. No offense I'm sure they put in effort but generally Thomas fan stories have gotten repetitive for me. I know not all like Thomas1Edward2Henry3's videos.
Big world big adventures is not supposed to be random animated series not even for fantasy sequences nor going around the world to places where there are no rails
I've checked a lot of the places Thomas went. I think he and Nia only went somewhere without rails once in real life, not the fantasy sequences. They don't have tracks across all the countries in Africa. Edit: It would still be a crazy hard thing to pull off though
i got a tomy edward from kaikki in fine condition and it came all shattered AND IT CAME WITH THE PARTS so either it was shattered in shipping [it was sunfaded] or they literally shipped me broken parts.. i did get another replacment but kaikki sucks unless for rolling stock or track / etc
Hi Adam, great video! I don’t know if you’re aware of this but on the 1985 and 1993 Thomas annuals, there’s some original stories featuring stills of the television series known as Thomas And The Important Visitor, Gale Warning, James’s Rest Cure, Unhappy Landing and Oliver Gets The Bird. As much I would have loved to see these stories get adapted on a special home video release during Season 4s production, was there a good chance that Christopher Awdry would have used actual real life events for reference to those stories?
Let's apply these five standards one of my fan stories, "Blue and Bold" (about Douglas and Duncan being repainted in NWR blue and having VERY different reactions to it): *Accuracy* The idea came to me after seeing how the Talyllyn's "Duncan: looked, realized that it looked like that particular shade of blue worn by the NWR's most famous engines, and combined that with my desire to have Douglas in his RWS livery because of his gratitude to Topham for saving him from scrap. *Consistency* Since this is set in my rewrite of the BWBA era (basically, Thomas goes on a worldwide press tour for the NWR, Edward and Henry are still very much part of the show, and realism is still honored), my goal here was getting the tone and style of a Brenner era episode right. Duncan is just as cantankerous as he's ever been, I tried to write the twins with their signature Scottish accents (and I had them working on the Little Western), I wrote Douglas as the more dutiful twin, and I used this story as an opportunity to retell "The Twin Engines" within the CGI style (yes, even you, Missing Coach). I even managed to get almost all the narrow gauge engines a part to play! *Brevity* I believe I succeeded in this regard. The story is only about 5 pages, even with how much happens here: Kevin spills the black and yellow paint meant for Douglas and Duncan, the two react very differently to their new liveries, they discuss it with their fellow engines, Duncan attempts to damage himself in order to get a new coat of paint, Mr. Percival scolding Duncan for his misbehavior, Douglas explaining to Duncan why he values the North Western blue with red lining so much, and the change this produces in Duncan. *Choice of Words* Arguably the weakest area, but even then I have words like "reverently", "cantankerous", "respectively", and "prevalent" in the story. *Fluency* I've read this story aloud several times, and yes- it can be read trippingly as Awdry would have it.
I wish I knew these rules that Awdry used years ago before I began writing... that would've streamlined the process of writing stories, be they rail-related or, in my instance, more paddock-bound.
HEY @ThomasTheorist I have an idea for a video you can do. you know how you did how many crashes each character had? what if you did that but instead of crashes it was becoming a runaway train
I have my own fan made continuation. I even include TV only characters in there. I have made 2 and my first was actually going to be about Henry killing a drunken man that fell onto the tracks. But then this is too violent so instead the man was just injured.
I'm making every mistake The Reverend came up with a cure for! I'll probably have to watch this video a few times and then go back to my old story ideas and try to do them properly.
GREAT video! Awdry's approach to writing is very overlooked. He was quite the genius with how digestible he presented his stories.
How is this not more popular? This is a great video for writing, I agree, and probably will use it for writing anything actually!
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In an 1988 BBC interview from Mr. Awdry himself that best summarizes his writing style, “When you are writing a children’s book, you’re writing for a whole lot of people; you’re writing for yourself, to make sure you got it researched right, you’re writing for the unfortunate parents who’ve got to read it aloud, time after time after time after time, you gotta put in subtle little funny bits, subtle bits which they’ll enjoy and then there’s the simple slapstick stuff which the child will enjoy.”
I definitely believe that the writing techniques that Wilbert Awdry created is the core reason why the books became a success and is so beloved by both kids and adults. It’s dedication to realism as it grew from being simple bedtime stories for kids to a fully fleshed out world that taught valuable life lessons to kids and even adults themselves as the series went on and THAT is what made it special.
Nice but you could use some of rule No. 3
A big thing I noticed that always seems absent in most other stories is the engines and rolling stock dialogue sounds how you would imagine it in real life. Thats what would stick out to me in the TVS (when not using rws stories).
@@Keaness I'm having a hard time imagining anything but the "cylinder dialogue" repetition like "Come, on, come, on, come, on" (Or occasionally the "wheel slip dialogue" like "don't be silly don't be silly don't be silly!") when I read this comment. But since it often got cut from Railway Series stories when they were adapted to the show, I'm not sure that's what you're referring to (And the possibility that you're referring to accuracy to the British dialect seems a little Farfetch'd, since I'm sure there are other stories that also get that right).
Could you please clarify?
@@lnerb1class1415 yeah I tend to write long paragraphs that I can’t really help myself, although I tried to make it shorter I think it’s mainly the words that Awdry said that made it long for you or other people to read. I mean you don’t EXACTLY have to read all of it but hey you do you.
By far the best advert I’ve ever gotten, but will they ALSO just flat out never ship me my keys??
I find it hilarious how every time I manage to learn more evidence that Awdry was a huge petty hater before it was cool
“There is no way an accident like that could happen” (proceeds to whip out standby collection of contradicting evidence)
He’s such an entertaining character in his own ways
Rev had the receipts 💀
People literally wrote to Awdry saying “pics or didn’t happen” and he had to prove them wrong with facts and logic.
Why does that sound so familiar?
What does it remind you of?
A more positive way of looking at it was that lots of kids were paying attention to the stories and cared enough about them to raise concerns about apparent inconsistencies (And enough parents cared about putting their kid's mind's to rest that they paid for stamps). Not everybody sending these letters was out to try to expose Awdry; many of them were children who considered questions like "Could Percy really have perched on that truck" as not unlike "Where does Toby keep his coal" or "Why does my mom keep saying the engine in this illustration is Henry! Please help me! All the details suggest it's Gordon!" They were writing to the Reverend for answers, not to put him down, and the Reverend was happy to oblige (He was not, however, happy with the role Dalby played in... er-herm... "augmenting his correspondence").
5:44 "You know what I like about Gex? Consistency." - Jeb Jab from Scott the Woz 2020
Hello, fellow Scott the Woz fan.
@@Fun_Avocado_1291 Hello to you too
I think we could learn a lot from Wilbert Awdry when it comes to writing stories about railways.
Is it only about railways or can it be about anything? I'm writing stories about wildlife conservation, not railways.
@@dhivaansalig6398 of course it can be anything.
It physically hurts me that the 4th rule breaks the pattern of them all being one word
“Diction” was right there!
Looks like our lovely Theorist wasn't careful with his word choice 👀
This will definitely come in handy for both those who are just starting out in writing stories or who already write stories but are also looking for tips on how to improve.
This will be a helpful video for beginners just starting to write Thomas stories, I’m pretty sure I know the basics of it but it doesn’t hurt to learn more
As someone like myself who's been hard at work at a train-themed book the last year, I've learned a lot since starting and this video sums up some of the stuff I've done. Atm though I am still struggling a bit but I'm learning things as I go and I do hope once my book is published people will enjoy it as those who have seen bits of it have been very positive about it. Not to mention I learned some stuff I didn't know about Wilbert Awdry in the video which I'm always happy to learn about. Also, Kudos to the Awdry family for sharing this info during this year's Extravaganza at the Talyllyn Railway as this is something I'm sure many fans have been wanting to know for years.
Ah, I can confirm brevity, choice of words, and to some extent, consistency are challenging, I often draw short-panel anime comics, and my biggest challenge is to make the information as clear as possible with the shortest possible sentences. I can understand that when writing a script, I had to cut unnecessary words to make it less crowded on execution.
For consistency, there was a little joke I put in my older comic that I made just for fun, and then I realized Im stuck with that, another example was when I hadn't looked at the map, I drew a comic taken beside the sea, it's not until way later that I realize, the place I'm based my work on is nowhere near the sea, so I ended up having to make an entirely fictional place just because of that single comic, and yes, I made a map for my world, not as complex as Sodor of course, just sort of base of operation based on real-world place, but I have some map ready as a reference when I want to draw another 4-panel comic, or comic in general.
I think I should know most of this. But I'll still watch it when it's out to see if I've got everything down.
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@A_lovely_pug ok
Everyone at Mattel should know how desperate we the fans need and want a good Thomas story/maybe movie if it can be done right. I am working on a Thomas movie script right now! And it’s based off the first four railway series books with the title “The Adventures of Thomas” and it has human characters that are sir StopHam Hatt’s family like his wife lady Hatt and two kids Stephen and Bridgett. I can not tell you any more about this film but I can assure you. Fans will eat it up and adore it! 🚂
I feel like the reason Marc Forster's live action Thomas film is taking so long in making is because the writers are genuinely considerably researching or studying the lore and concept of the franchise, with the director Marc himself is also dealing with this process to make a better script for the film; that's why it's taking so long for them to even release a teaser trailer; if I'm honest.
I have a strange feeling that we will see the Thomas and Friends Movie trailer this December or February next year for the 80th anniversary, but who knows.
@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 yeah! That could work! However. You might wanna be a lucky fan and interview Forster during his promoting of the new Thomas movie for white bird! I have been somewhat keeping track of his stuff lately and saw a man called Otto and rewatched Christopher Robbin! He could pull it off right if he takes a good read at a few of the railway series. If not, then I have better plans, in fact. I have a prequel script I’ve been working on!
@@Anchovistic I Wouldn’t be surprised if that happened. But I also wouldn’t be shocked if the movie doesn’t happened either In general! Witch has been done before with hit entertainment promising is a movie called “The Adventures of Thomas”. And it never came for wishing. However. If Marc Forster’s Thomas Movie gets released and fails like TATMR did, then I have an amazing script serving as a prequel that I’ve been working on lately! I think you Thomas/railway series will love this one!
@@Offcialjacobpacewells Oh, I'd LOVE to read it, Sir!
@@Offcialjacobpacewells Also, I know what had happened to the canceled TAOT film. Hope the Marc's one doesn't, though. I REALLY want to see the theatrical Thomas film on the big screen!
I hope the "Kar Key" ad was more sarcasm than satire.
Also, this video was just what I needed. I forgot to write down the reverend's brevity rules when I had The Thomas The Tank Engine Man checked out from my church's library, and I've had some fan story ideas featuring Gordon and the first new-built steam engine in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, Tornado.
I kinda wanna see more nursery rhyme extensions similar to Edwards and Henry's stories.
This makes me appreciate Awdry so much omg, no wonder he always got pissed when the TVS broke a rule or changed HIS story around, because it took him soooo long to perfect and with them just changing it on a whim would be so infuriating.
I like how you can use these rules for writing in general. It's always nice learning that even masters who make great works still struggle behind the scenes but to the outside we think they just do it on the first try with little thought. Practice and consistency is what made great story tellers like him.
I've written down every 5 rules on how to make good thomas stories on my old book, thank you thomas theorist, with this video, now i can make better stories.
It was so cool learning Awdry's writing style as it's the backbone of what made the stories so good and enjoyable. Hopefully people can learn from this *cough Mattel* when making their own stories
As somebody writing his own Thomas stories and feels like he's spinning his wheels in the process this was really inspiring thanks Adam and thank you Awdry
2:35 WHOA HOLD ON THERE, THEY DID WHAT TO HENRY???!!
0:55 that actually explains a lot.
3:54 picked the image of the wrong Hawes junction crash. *Yup were several.* Interestingly enough:
1) there'd a song about the crash in the image, Ais Gill by Dave Goulder.
2) the incident that inspired James' turntable fiasco also happened at Hawes junction!
It's always fascinating to see how different writers work. Everyone has a different style and workflow, and of course everyone needs to keep their audience in mind.
The fact that I’ve literally JUST started writing my own Thomas stories and this video pops up is an absolute blessing 😳
GREAT video! Sweet's approach to writing is very overlooked. He was quite the genius with how digestible he presented his stories.
As a former English major, this was really satisfying to watch.
It's interesting to think about how many generations have grown up with the railway series or Thomas in some way. And that if the change in quality of writing has produced different kinds of adults through out the years.ie does the way stories are presented to kid effect there development.
Fantastic video, Adam! The sponsor was hilarious, and everything was explained beautifully! Marvellous job!!
Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher Awdry are my first favorite writers and these details he did are interesting. Luckily, I write my own Thomas and Friends stories, which each takes place today, during my spare time since 2017 and I think I'm starting understand this. So I'll try these tips and hopefully I could one day in the future post them to let the others adapt them with the very lines I wrote.
Fasincating video! I've always depended on Thomas when making my stories, but couldn't reason why until I found this video! Excellent work 🎉
This video was very helpful for me. I'm planning on writing some of my own Thomas stories in the future so this could really help as I have a few ideas in the works.
A truly amazing video👏🏽👏🏽
As an aspiring author of my own island railway series, my plan is not only making my stories cute and sweet, but also make them chunked enough to keep kids and other readers salified and entertained. I also plan maybe either conjoin them into 1-2-3-character story book (Like three characters stories in one book) or conjoin all the stories in one, I'm personally thinking of adding the 1-2-3-character story idea. But I won't stop writing, I love writing stories for all my characters. They all have unique personalities and stories to each and every one of them.
Thanks now I know how to properly make episode ideas
That is a great video. I suppose those tips could help me improve my Thomas stories in future.
Your videos are good I'm Irish myself
I'll use those rules one day in the future. Thanks.
What a really useful video that was!
Thanks for helping me out! I write thomas stories for fun and this made me realise a lot of important things that can help in future!
Love your videos Adam
We needed this
I think rule 55 was referring to the rules of an IRL railway
_You can't do it!_
@@AbbeyYardNO.
Rule 55, 'Effort': You can't just "do" a story, you have to put countless amounts of time into it to make sure it's good.
On the real railway it was a safety rule that said if a train waa stopped at a signal, one I'd the crew had to walk to a railway telephone box or the signal box to check with the signalman why they'd stopped, and that their train was protected by other signals.
I find difficult writing, from Dysgraphia, basically me doing plenty rewriting. I will refer to this video in future, thank you.
I remember on your S25 Thomas continued video that some of your ideas were similar to mine.
Though the only problem I had with them was knowing how to come up with a solution to the story's plot, problem or conflict.
I will one day use this video to make a fan film.... one day...
Miller and Mattel could certainly watch this
Edit: HIT was more responsible for the bad writing than Miller
Haha i think so
Not completely
The bad episodes of HIT wasn't all Miller's fault. HIT probably just enforced the 3 strike formula to get more more money off of Thomas. Miller's work like The Great Discovery, Blue Mountain Mystery, and Hero of the Rails were good.
@@XyloNe112 ok but... misty island rescue, day of the diesels
@@XyloNe112 Ye
Love the sponsor part
That start cracked me up and it’s very true😂😂😂😂
I did some research on the original “Once an engine attached to a train was afraid of a few drops of rain”. It’s a poem found in a children’s literature book, which I believe was written in 1902. Pretty cool how somebody wrote this and had no idea that it would help shape the biggest train franchise in the world. Unfortunately I could not find the name of the book. Would anyone happen to know?
When I rewrite some the Hit Era stories, I think about the original, I switch characters, add few textures, and I make it more original just like from the books and original show.
This is great advice for writers like me because I am currently writing a fanfiction about Sodor (not what you imagine) where it involves the human side of the island of Sodor.
Slices of life beyond the rails if you will. And I might need some help with it since there aren’t any human-only stories about Sodor😅
I got burned out from Thomas fan stories most for 1 reason, the karma formula:
Character says something stupid or doesn't believe or is warned of something, then karma strikes and supposedly learned a lesson.
No offense I'm sure they put in effort but generally Thomas fan stories have gotten repetitive for me. I know not all like Thomas1Edward2Henry3's videos.
Wdym with your last sentence?
Big world big adventures is not supposed to be random animated series not even for fantasy sequences nor going around the world to places where there are no rails
I've checked a lot of the places Thomas went. I think he and Nia only went somewhere without rails once in real life, not the fantasy sequences. They don't have tracks across all the countries in Africa.
Edit: It would still be a crazy hard thing to pull off though
Yeah well Thom doesn't travel the world and even if he did the animation can must be like the model series
Engines from different countries was once neat but not visiting the countries
Hiro from Japan
Millie from France
This video should be played in my writing class
i uave to watch this seeing im starting my youtubes!
Gunna have to find a story of a train inside a fast food restaurant to help the script for my new story, Thomas comes to Burger King.
0:19 Any chance that name was based on the video you told us about how you lost your car keys?
8:44 why do I feel called out ?
Also pruning might be a reference to the Loki show.
I kinda like Victor Tanzig's take (save for season 5 on his series, seriously that STD surgery was a shit idea.)
i got a tomy edward from kaikki in fine condition and it came all shattered AND IT CAME WITH THE PARTS so either it was shattered in shipping [it was sunfaded] or they literally shipped me broken parts.. i did get another replacment but kaikki sucks unless for rolling stock or track / etc
This video will serve as a reminder on how to properly treat Thomas for future generations to come
Hi Adam, great video! I don’t know if you’re aware of this but on the 1985 and 1993 Thomas annuals, there’s some original stories featuring stills of the television series known as Thomas And The Important Visitor, Gale Warning, James’s Rest Cure, Unhappy Landing and Oliver Gets The Bird. As much I would have loved to see these stories get adapted on a special home video release during Season 4s production, was there a good chance that Christopher Awdry would have used actual real life events for reference to those stories?
Awdrys disciplines also should be the doctrine of railway series scripture in fan content
Why'd i think Kar Key was gonna be a meme on him doing everything possible to his car keys
Me 2 seconds later.... wait.....
12 year olds writing sodor fallout AUs: *that sign won't stop me because I can't read*
What is that word you say the end of your videos? "suave vidalia"?
For you next video can you please do a Chuggington iceberg
Let's apply these five standards one of my fan stories, "Blue and Bold" (about Douglas and Duncan being repainted in NWR blue and having VERY different reactions to it):
*Accuracy*
The idea came to me after seeing how the Talyllyn's "Duncan: looked, realized that it looked like that particular shade of blue worn by the NWR's most famous engines, and combined that with my desire to have Douglas in his RWS livery because of his gratitude to Topham for saving him from scrap.
*Consistency*
Since this is set in my rewrite of the BWBA era (basically, Thomas goes on a worldwide press tour for the NWR, Edward and Henry are still very much part of the show, and realism is still honored), my goal here was getting the tone and style of a Brenner era episode right. Duncan is just as cantankerous as he's ever been, I tried to write the twins with their signature Scottish accents (and I had them working on the Little Western), I wrote Douglas as the more dutiful twin, and I used this story as an opportunity to retell "The Twin Engines" within the CGI style (yes, even you, Missing Coach). I even managed to get almost all the narrow gauge engines a part to play!
*Brevity*
I believe I succeeded in this regard. The story is only about 5 pages, even with how much happens here: Kevin spills the black and yellow paint meant for Douglas and Duncan, the two react very differently to their new liveries, they discuss it with their fellow engines, Duncan attempts to damage himself in order to get a new coat of paint, Mr. Percival scolding Duncan for his misbehavior, Douglas explaining to Duncan why he values the North Western blue with red lining so much, and the change this produces in Duncan.
*Choice of Words*
Arguably the weakest area, but even then I have words like "reverently", "cantankerous", "respectively", and "prevalent" in the story.
*Fluency*
I've read this story aloud several times, and yes- it can be read trippingly as Awdry would have it.
I saw the title and instantly knew the answer; fire all the people writing the series now!
I wish I knew these rules that Awdry used years ago before I began writing... that would've streamlined the process of writing stories, be they rail-related or, in my instance, more paddock-bound.
Onistly I would love to have a book of the full rough drafts
How convenient that I’m making a train film soon for a school project :)
Will you make a document about the original ttte basis NEXT😊
HEY @ThomasTheorist I have an idea for a video you can do. you know how you did how many crashes each character had? what if you did that but instead of crashes it was becoming a runaway train
Do a Vince Gilligan.
Aka focus on every detail and make sure it works within the context of your vision.
Thomas have clever writing right or wrong
Finally some lore to share!
This helps me a lot
Whenever I write a story, (I sometimes don’t finish it), I finish it and then I read, I’m all like “what the hell am I reading?”
I have my own fan made continuation. I even include TV only characters in there. I have made 2 and my first was actually going to be about Henry killing a drunken man that fell onto the tracks. But then this is too violent so instead the man was just injured.
Will you make a document about the original ttte basis next
Let’s request Mattel to continue the original Thomas show, no matter what
I'm making every mistake The Reverend came up with a cure for! I'll probably have to watch this video a few times and then go back to my old story ideas and try to do them properly.
After watching this, I want to become a better writer both for college and for my own Thomas stories.
I've been writing my own stories, hopefully mine are good.
Damn! You roasted Kaikki!
someone send this video to matel
the kaikki intro got me off guard
Can you do a video talking about how to make a good Thomas series on UA-cam
9:18 Who’s that engine in the window?
I will use this wideo when i will make my sierpień simlar to engines of eight And underground ernie
you should explain what other basis edward and james were going to be
As a guy who doesn't have a car, I'm very upset my keys didn't arrive
I wrote a good story once, taking place right in the middle of Legend of the Lost Treasure after the dynamite incident.
Some of this can even be used for non-Thomas stories
Take notes Mattel.
It won't be easy. Britt Allcroft and Hit Entertainment and Mattel always break the rules.
We need to normalise Kakkii slander.