Something about paranormal horror and the military is just so good. Like, the mundanity of the military complex to a slow burn into horrific insanity... or the subtle existential horror of certain things like "don't say *it's* name... don't talk to *it*... don't even think about *it*... I love it. It's like SCP containment breach levels of horror. Where the supernatural is just a part of life and that's it. Humanity trying to integrate it into regular life but it can't quite do so.
I was born and stayed in Las Vegas Nevada. I'm 57 now and have been through and heard weird frightening stuff about the desert. Thank you for this story. It's excellent absolutely excellent.
Ahh tracks in 29 palms. That brings back some memories. Than he mentioned tobie's the hole in the wall out of the back gate. NCO training days out of the back gate.
29 palms aka stumps. Memories, these are my favorite stories among them all. Makes me feel at home strangely, never have gotten used to civ life never will I guess...oh well.
THANK YOU for continuing with these military stories, I’ve listened to the old ones over and over again and I thought you would never do them again. THANK YOU, you made my day!
For me, it's not just the incredible quality of the stories, but it's also the narrators voice! Wow, I feel so safe listening to the most messed up stuff ever.
For some strange reason my little catgirl comes running and folds up like a loaf everytine I have your narrations on speaker mode. She listens actively all through these military stories. When story ends she fluff her fur in order and goes to sleep. I guess she is a fan
By the way, I find it odd that when I first started listening to these 'creepy stories', I got Dark Somnium, Lighthouse Horror, and Dr. Creepen, in my recommendations, but your channel never showed up. I listened to a hundred stories from those other three, but never knew you existed. And I wouldn't have found your channel if I hadn't heard your voice as a guest narrator on one of Dr. Creepen's videos. I liked what you did there and found your channel name and had to search for it, at which point, I found the channel. In my opinion, your the best narrator of the four and I find it strange that you don't have as many views and don't show up in the recommended list (until after someone searches your channel).
You know it's a good one when your yelling SMOKE IT!! SMOKE IT BEFORE IT SMOKES YOU!! like a mad man at your phone. Excellent work by both author and narrator! Keep up the good work and please more 29 palm's or military storys, especially from this author!
I swear, I hear one more commercial explaining how much toxic poop I have in my system, I'm finding that dude and wiping my toxic caboose with his merry little beard!
As a fellow service member (army vet now) i can say with absolute certainty fuck 90% of military shrinks, I swear its like they get paid more to NOT help their charges get better...
Great story! I love how he highlights a one-sided conversation about Dragon Ball Z, then they encounter a tweaker with ultra instinct 🤣 Can't wait to see what comes next.
I was just relistening to this series again after so long. I was curious with Bullsheart updating (which I love already) and had a hope this one would get a reboot. Love this author's stories and how you narrate their work. ❤
The one thing that I truly enjoy & appreciate about these Weird Shit Marine Corps stories & narrations are the fact the Authors actually know their Military Shit, ie: terminology, proper gear, rank, rates, etc. I taught writing classes a few years ago at a Tech College. Long story short? The best piece of advice possible is to “Write What You Know”. Good luck! I hope everyone is well & hanging in there. Be safe!
I've never liked that approach myself. It's always really easy to tell when someone is doing a hard self insert, especially when they're writing "what they know". One reason being that you notice that that's the only thing anyone demonstrates any real knowledge of during the story. Because to write what you don't know already you have to do research, sometimes a lot of it, for something most might not even notice. That's part of why so many of my protagonists are very far removed from me. There's also other problems you get with only being able to self insert for the protagonist, like even if you write different protagonists for different stories and different characters within those stories, they all tend to be the same character more of less. Even if they're described different, when they have dialogue it's hard for those types of writers to distinguish that character from the other by their syntax habits, preferred phrases, filler words, and unique vocabulary. You have to be able to think like that character would when writing those lines and keep that persona locked in so that they're consistent each time they're written. And they might have a different knowledge set than the protagonist. Like José for example. I do ride the same bike as he does, but I've never been a bike courier and I've never worked food delivery. I've never road a bike in New York or in LA. So I watched countless videos of courier talking about what the average day's like, what kind of bag they might use and what they tend to cost, why you want one instead of the other, what the bike courier scene is like in LA vs New York, what times they make the most money, etc. I spent hours looking at maps of different areas in LA and getting familiar with them so that timing and locations would be consistent and cohesive. And so on. Then I showed it to real bike couriers to scrutinize and they all signed off on it before I posted it. For "I Banged a Werewolf" I went as far as to look up what a ticket to the specific airport Milo would be landing at, and since it said "Transylvania International Airport" and not Targu Mures like what the locals call it, I made him call it the Transylvanian International Airport. Because if I had just looked up the airport and not the actual ticket I wouldn't have known that. An actual Romanian actually got mad because I used that wording instead of Targu Mures... because they had never bought a plane ticket to Romania from the US and had no idea that the tickets don't say Targu Mures. So it wouldn't have been accurate for Milo to use the correct name. I even went on Google and found photos taken of the airport and surroundings at the time the story would have been happening (not being written) just to be able to describe the area accurately. None of which I personally knew before writing the story. So I'd agree that it's definitely easier to write what you know, but that's extremely limiting in what the story can be. It's a very safe, unchallenging approach comparatively. I feel like it's better to say "You ought to write what you know if-" and then set the goal you're trying to accomplish with the story. At least that's my perspective and experience.
@@joshwaggoner1301 Well, yeah these are a hard self insert. These Spooky Marine stories, are stories based on things that have actually happend to me. They are my sub conscious working through trauma, and I only realized that upon finishing THIS story. I should have figured that shit out with 'Convoy' but what can you do? Probably why I didn't want to write in this series for two years. Brain is weird, man. But honestly in my opinion, it doesn't matter your method as long you turn out a good story at the end of the day. As long as you enjoy the process, that will show in the work. I mean look at these stories, I think there's like a combined million views on Skott's take on these stories. So either people like listening to depressing shit, or they're purty decent stories. But, you can still sit there and write about things you have never seen and maintain soul in the story. I mean hell, one of the coolest things I've ever written was a dust up between a pair of NYANG HH-60s and a fucking dragon, two blocks from Central park. Never been in an HH-60, never been to East 110th spooky, I despise New Yorkers, and I ain't a Dragon Born. What I did there was pretty fun, and I would suggest you try it. Get on Google Street View and 'walk' around the area you want to write in. Get a feel for the area, looking at maps is one thing, being able to say 'There's a community Garden at 22nd and E 110th, the sign has a Latin Kings Tag on it' is a very different level of detail you can bring to a story. And it never hurts to look up a duty expert on any given subject, fuckers love talking about themselves and what they do. You can use that. I actually hunted up a Black Hawk crew chief to see what she thought of the dragon fight. She liked it, and gave me some details that would really make the scene pop. All that for a story that will probably never see the light of day! She wanted the Black Hawk crews to survive the fight of course, but fuck that, nobody has a good day in my Stories. Bull's Heart has an LEO adviser. Guys a huge geek. Skott is a monster advisor on it too. Broski has a mental menagerie of ooky spooks. So that was a long winded way of saying, 'whatever works as long as the end product is good'
@@Ninjapiratecowboy Why would you suggest I do something that I said I already did in the previous comment? Like I said, my statement wasn't to not do it, but that it's not the only method to go with. I said to set a goal and see if that approach is the best for that goal. IE "You ought to write what you know if-" But I don't like it as universal "you definitely should" writing advice and it's not what I like to do myself. It's hard to grow and you don't develop a sense for character variance that way if your goal is to have a lot of engaging interactions between characters or to include elements from outside your own personal expertise. That's why I say establishing a solid goal then picking the style to suit it is a good approach. Whether you're looking to vent or to challenge yourself creatively we could consider opposite ends, and then you would determine where in the median you want your writing to fall. But I would never advise someone to exclusively write what they know in all cases.
@@joshwaggoner1301 because I was just shootin' the shit with you. Sounded like you had a lot of disdain for the method, and I disagree. There's a lot of great writing out there, coming from people writing what they know. I think you mentioned you were a cyclist up there, I bet you could write a hell of a story about something simple like riding a bicycle. Because those are feelings you know. You know what lactic acid in the calves feels like when you get ten more miles to go. The devil is in the details, and the details build the story.
@@Ninjapiratecowboy I really feel like you're not reading what I'm typing closely before you respond because you're responses aren't exactly a strong acknowledgement of that. Like for example, when you said you noticed I mentioned riding a bike, what was the context in which I mentioned riding a bike and the information that followed. And I'm just listing the pros and cons of each option. Like for example, if you say "The devil's in the details", then exclusively writing about what you know means you've automatically limited the amount of details you can include in a given story. So say we have a story about an army private written by an army private. But within the confines of the story his wife gives birth to a child and he's in the room with her during delivery. Now, in this case it's very easy to write things based on what we've seen in movies and TV because that's most of our only frame of reference. But that might not be accurate. He might describe a nurse saying or doing something a real nurse would never do. So to get those details right you'll have to seek out the information. Additionally, you can use knowing what they would do to write something they wouldn't normally do as a signal to the audience. IE "Hey a real nurse would never do that... Something's fucky." Also doing that research means that now you have that information set to use whenever you need it in the future. And like I mentioned earlier, another con is that all the stories will tend to sound like they were writing by the same person, even if they weren't meant to. Different people have different knowledge sets, vocabulary, filler words, syntax habits, and so on. I'm not saying you can't get good writing out of that method, just that it has its own inherent limitations. The opposite does as well. It's a pain in the ass, it's a lot of work for an aspect the masses in general will never noticed. It's largely thankless work, especially for an internet story written for free. There's also high risk. To step out of your own personal knowledge set runs the risk of someone on the field finding it and nitpicking. And then something probably nobody would have even noticed becomes a focal point of the story because it's wrong. So there's more pressure to get it right. There's a lot of extra effort, and if you're just trying to turn out a story it can go from a few days of writing to a month of work just based on that. Never mind if there's deeper plot elements and continuity at work. But I still think this is an important aspect even in the context of the "write what you know" approach. Because it's easy to run into experience specific scenarios. Like flying on an airline for example. Someone who's never flown before has an infinite number of things to screw up about the experience if they've never done it before. So they have to choose to either avoid the experience in their story altogether, opting instead for "so we flew to the location", or to do due diligence and get a proper idea of the experience. That's why I say that method is very much the "safe" way to go about it.
Yr on top form of late, NT From the lads in " Dracula in My Basement " to The utterly marvellous.. " Dirty Work" the alternate Mafia & the boys, Louis & Mark & the Goons Just 1st class With amazing authors incl the incredible Joshua Waggoner & yr interpretation of set characters was stupendous Thank You.
Hey Bro, I love your narrations and I listen to them all. If I may give you a couple tips from a former Marine…. - Don’t use the word whilst.. just say “while” in place of “whilst”. No Marine uses that word. - 5.56 mm in pronounced “five point five six”. Not “five point fifty six”. Like I said earlier. I LOVE YOUR narrations. Please keep them coming, just thought I would give a Marine’s perspective on this series. 😀
Damn! Out of all the Marine Weird shit stories I’ve heard, from various narrators, many seem to be at 29 Palms. Too many. I’d love to hear more of this one, and if I were to wager that was an inhuman demonic entity, or an extraterrestrial alien entity. Just wearing a humans skin. But not a skinwalker. And I’d have to agree with said entity, It was Not his day! Great story!
ok... i thought this was part of the story, but at about the 4min mark, I heard a woman's voice advertising Iron Mountain Data Products, -a legit company.. LOL!
@@NaturesTemper aye may have just been UA-cam being stupid, cause I watched several of your recent ones in a row and none of the others did it so, eh who knows
To all uninichiated yes I butchered the spelling. Bugs Bunny and Last Airbender are cartoons. Dragon Ball Z and Yu hi oh and Boondocks are examples of Anime.
@@Ninjapiratecowboy back in the early 90s, 3rd Marines were wrapped up in this drug thing that happened during the invasion of Kuwait. When Saddam got a wild hair in his ass. Fast forward 12 to 13 years later, the Commandant at the time had been quoted as saying, "I wouldn't trust 3rd Marines to start a fire in the Pacific." My unit got wind of that bullshit. So. . .in order to give the Commandant a fuck you, we started a GOT DAMNED fire in the Pacific. Got wood, doused it in kerosene, wrapped it in plastic, as best we could, stacked the wood, and lit that bitch on fire and sent the video to Washington. Few months after that, we were on our way to combat.
@@Ninjapiratecowboy ok. I already sent the story. But I'm gonna repeat it in the most Barney way possible because UA-cam dont like swear words. Vaginas. . .any way! I'm from 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Regiment. I'm a Lava Dog stationed out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. In the early 90s, my late uncle served with Kilo 3/3. 12 years later, I'm serving in a brother unit, 1/3. Well during Desert Storm, 3rd Marines were mixed up in some. . . recreational narc scandal and some situations that involved "booger sugar" that stained the units reputation. I cannot for the life of me remember how we found out years later, that the Commandant of the Marine Corps was quoted as saying, "I wouldn't trust 3rd Marines to set a fire in the Pacific". So as a fuck you to the Commandant, guess what we did. He got the "anonymous" video, and months later, were sent into combat. Becoming one of most decorated units in Operation Phantom Fury. So. . .as I said. . . Lava Dogs? We're not that bad.
Hey Skott, you should consider reading the Diablo books that go along with the game by blizzard. They are very good I'm sure you would enjoy them. My Favorite of the series is Legacy Of Blood. Also idk if your into sci-fi but the Halo book series is absolutely amazing, I recommend fall of reach and Ghosts of Onyx. They are all great books, both halo series and diablo series, would be super dope if you could do all the books in chronological order or something, one step at a time though. Much Love ~MiZ
These Weird Marine Corps stories are the best and I never get tired of you narrating them NaturesTemper.
Something about paranormal horror and the military is just so good.
Like, the mundanity of the military complex to a slow burn into horrific insanity... or the subtle existential horror of certain things like "don't say *it's* name... don't talk to *it*... don't even think about *it*...
I love it. It's like SCP containment breach levels of horror. Where the supernatural is just a part of life and that's it. Humanity trying to integrate it into regular life but it can't quite do so.
I agree
Facts
The real horror story is US imperialism.
As a 29 palms Marine, I absolutely love these stories. They’re just about the only thing that makes me feel at home anymore.
I grew up in 29 palms as a civilian. Love to hear these stories.
29 stumps
I was born and stayed in Las Vegas Nevada. I'm 57 now and have been through and heard weird frightening stuff about the desert. Thank you for this story. It's excellent absolutely excellent.
Marine veteran here, i laughed way too hard at the desert yeti stealing their BAH bit 🤣😆
This series and the one by 035None are probably one of my favorite stories of all time.
What’s the others called I can’t seem to find them on his page
Ahh tracks in 29 palms. That brings back some memories. Than he mentioned tobie's the hole in the wall out of the back gate. NCO training days out of the back gate.
Of all the stories you narrate Weird S**T stores are my absolute favorites..
29 palms aka stumps. Memories, these are my favorite stories among them all. Makes me feel at home strangely, never have gotten used to civ life never will I guess...oh well.
My vocabulary has been increased by 40%. Thank you, Mr. Temper
THANK YOU for continuing with these military stories, I’ve listened to the old ones over and over again and I thought you would never do them again. THANK YOU, you made my day!
For me, it's not just the incredible quality of the stories, but it's also the narrators voice! Wow, I feel so safe listening to the most messed up stuff ever.
That DBZ reference made me laugh. I love these Marine stories. Great narration per usual.
For some strange reason my little catgirl comes running and folds up like a loaf everytine I have your narrations on speaker mode. She listens actively all through these military stories. When story ends she fluff her fur in order and goes to sleep. I guess she is a fan
My favorite stories in this series. Weird Shit I saw as a Marine is by far the best stories
Its been a while since one of these... AWESOME!!!
My husband sat next to me to see what I was watching. He is still here at the end. He wants to tell him friend, both vets. Great story!
I watched these before I was a marine and I watch them now makes them better understand more of the lingo and stuff
that hispanic accent is so on point
By the way, I find it odd that when I first started listening to these 'creepy stories', I got Dark Somnium, Lighthouse Horror, and Dr. Creepen, in my recommendations, but your channel never showed up. I listened to a hundred stories from those other three, but never knew you existed. And I wouldn't have found your channel if I hadn't heard your voice as a guest narrator on one of Dr. Creepen's videos. I liked what you did there and found your channel name and had to search for it, at which point, I found the channel. In my opinion, your the best narrator of the four and I find it strange that you don't have as many views and don't show up in the recommended list (until after someone searches your channel).
Pretty much same here
You know it's a good one when your yelling SMOKE IT!! SMOKE IT BEFORE IT SMOKES YOU!! like a mad man at your phone.
Excellent work by both author and narrator! Keep up the good work and please more 29 palm's or military storys, especially from this author!
your laid back tough guy voice really does tickle my heart and other places
When he said he wasn't from vidor I laughed a little harder than I should have
This is similar to old radio shows I've found and been listening to.
It's truly amazing how much life you give each character
Here we are again, another great story in the makes! I cant wait to hear more. Dude, that southern accent is on mark, I love it🤗💋
I swear, I hear one more commercial explaining how much toxic poop I have in my system, I'm finding that dude and wiping my toxic caboose with his merry little beard!
You know, aside from the humor, history says that “The Duke”, John Wayne, died with 50lbs of undigested meat inside his gastrointestinal tract.
I'll help you, I have some Husky and shepard poop in the back yard.
Yeah!!! Marine Corps stories!! My husband is former active Marine!
I fell in love with NT after listening to one of the first few Marine stories.. been here since.. ♥️
Am prior army and love hearing someone that at least knows the lingo and absolutely respect hearing from q man been there like alot of us
You're the best when it comes to military stories simplify
Awesome addition, OK, READY FOR MORE!
As a fellow service member (army vet now) i can say with absolute certainty fuck 90% of military shrinks, I swear its like they get paid more to NOT help their charges get better...
gahd damn, lookin' a double wide surprise.
im so glad there is a new weird shit ive seen as a marine story i remember listing to them when they first came out
My absolute favorite horror/suspense series out there!!! Thank you!
Omg it’s been years I’ve dream of this day left me in a cliffhanger all these years
I love these stories. Keep them coming.
Always cool when you recognize the locations. Worked for railroad in that area.
Yo my rez is in the mohave desert. Called needles. im mojave native and this story kicks ass hommie keep it up
Been waiting for another one of these cheers man thanks from Australia your work is amzing
damn, i listend to all your military related stories, ended like a months ago. Finally a new one!
I DIDNT THINK YOU WOULD MAKE MORE OF THESE!!
I love the really love the weird shit ive seen as a marine. Honesty my favourite play list.
Damn coffin boxes is what we called trax back in my day. I was happy when I went to STA platoon. 2/1 1995-2003
Your accents are really good.
This is the one that started it all for me, watched every video and still rockin with you! 🙌 never stop
Yay!!! ALL TIME FAVORITE STORY "S"! TY TY TY !!!!
I love this series I better listen to it 10 times
This Series of Stories is Really Great NT! 🤗 I Love to listen to your many Voices! 🌺 Happy Spring! 🙋♀️✌🌻👻🐶😹🐾🐢💋👀🌹🙏
Another excellent listen...thank you sir!
Great story! I love how he highlights a one-sided conversation about Dragon Ball Z, then they encounter a tweaker with ultra instinct 🤣 Can't wait to see what comes next.
Well it's not Ultra Instinct
I can tell.you that
@@Ninjapiratecowboy I'm aware. It was a joke in reference to how she covered a considerable distance without the main character seeing her move.
I was just relistening to this series again after so long. I was curious with Bullsheart updating (which I love already) and had a hope this one would get a reboot. Love this author's stories and how you narrate their work. ❤
The one thing that I truly enjoy & appreciate about these Weird Shit Marine Corps stories & narrations are the fact the Authors actually know their Military Shit, ie: terminology, proper gear, rank, rates, etc.
I taught writing classes a few years ago at a Tech College. Long story short? The best piece of advice possible is to “Write What You Know”.
Good luck!
I hope everyone is well & hanging in there. Be safe!
I've never liked that approach myself. It's always really easy to tell when someone is doing a hard self insert, especially when they're writing "what they know". One reason being that you notice that that's the only thing anyone demonstrates any real knowledge of during the story.
Because to write what you don't know already you have to do research, sometimes a lot of it, for something most might not even notice.
That's part of why so many of my protagonists are very far removed from me. There's also other problems you get with only being able to self insert for the protagonist, like even if you write different protagonists for different stories and different characters within those stories, they all tend to be the same character more of less. Even if they're described different, when they have dialogue it's hard for those types of writers to distinguish that character from the other by their syntax habits, preferred phrases, filler words, and unique vocabulary.
You have to be able to think like that character would when writing those lines and keep that persona locked in so that they're consistent each time they're written.
And they might have a different knowledge set than the protagonist.
Like José for example. I do ride the same bike as he does, but I've never been a bike courier and I've never worked food delivery. I've never road a bike in New York or in LA. So I watched countless videos of courier talking about what the average day's like, what kind of bag they might use and what they tend to cost, why you want one instead of the other, what the bike courier scene is like in LA vs New York, what times they make the most money, etc.
I spent hours looking at maps of different areas in LA and getting familiar with them so that timing and locations would be consistent and cohesive. And so on.
Then I showed it to real bike couriers to scrutinize and they all signed off on it before I posted it.
For "I Banged a Werewolf" I went as far as to look up what a ticket to the specific airport Milo would be landing at, and since it said "Transylvania International Airport" and not Targu Mures like what the locals call it, I made him call it the Transylvanian International Airport. Because if I had just looked up the airport and not the actual ticket I wouldn't have known that.
An actual Romanian actually got mad because I used that wording instead of Targu Mures... because they had never bought a plane ticket to Romania from the US and had no idea that the tickets don't say Targu Mures. So it wouldn't have been accurate for Milo to use the correct name. I even went on Google and found photos taken of the airport and surroundings at the time the story would have been happening (not being written) just to be able to describe the area accurately. None of which I personally knew before writing the story.
So I'd agree that it's definitely easier to write what you know, but that's extremely limiting in what the story can be. It's a very safe, unchallenging approach comparatively. I feel like it's better to say "You ought to write what you know if-" and then set the goal you're trying to accomplish with the story.
At least that's my perspective and experience.
@@joshwaggoner1301 Well, yeah these are a hard self insert.
These Spooky Marine stories, are stories based on things that have actually happend to me. They are my sub conscious working through trauma, and I only realized that upon finishing THIS story. I should have figured that shit out with 'Convoy' but what can you do? Probably why I didn't want to write in this series for two years. Brain is weird, man.
But honestly in my opinion, it doesn't matter your method as long you turn out a good story at the end of the day. As long as you enjoy the process, that will show in the
work.
I mean look at these stories, I think there's like a combined million views on Skott's take on these stories. So either people like listening to depressing shit, or they're purty decent stories.
But, you can still sit there and write about things you have never seen and maintain soul in the story.
I mean hell, one of the coolest things I've ever written was a dust up between a pair of NYANG HH-60s and a fucking dragon, two blocks from Central park.
Never been in an HH-60, never been to East 110th spooky, I despise New Yorkers, and I ain't a Dragon Born. What I did there was pretty fun, and I would suggest you try it. Get on Google Street View and 'walk' around the area you want to write in. Get a feel for the area, looking at maps is one thing, being able to say 'There's a community Garden at 22nd and E 110th, the sign has a Latin Kings Tag on it' is a very different level of detail you can bring to a story.
And it never hurts to look up a duty expert on any given subject, fuckers love talking about themselves and what they do. You can use that.
I actually hunted up a Black Hawk crew chief to see what she thought of the dragon fight. She liked it, and gave me some details that would really make the scene pop. All that for a story that will probably never see the light of day! She wanted the Black Hawk crews to survive the fight of course, but fuck that, nobody has a good day in my Stories.
Bull's Heart has an LEO adviser. Guys a huge geek. Skott is a monster advisor on it too. Broski has a mental menagerie of ooky spooks.
So that was a long winded way of saying, 'whatever works as long as the end product is good'
@@Ninjapiratecowboy Why would you suggest I do something that I said I already did in the previous comment? Like I said, my statement wasn't to not do it, but that it's not the only method to go with.
I said to set a goal and see if that approach is the best for that goal. IE "You ought to write what you know if-" But I don't like it as universal "you definitely should" writing advice and it's not what I like to do myself. It's hard to grow and you don't develop a sense for character variance that way if your goal is to have a lot of engaging interactions between characters or to include elements from outside your own personal expertise.
That's why I say establishing a solid goal then picking the style to suit it is a good approach. Whether you're looking to vent or to challenge yourself creatively we could consider opposite ends, and then you would determine where in the median you want your writing to fall. But I would never advise someone to exclusively write what they know in all cases.
@@joshwaggoner1301 because I was just shootin' the shit with you. Sounded like you had a lot of disdain for the method, and I disagree. There's a lot of great writing out there, coming from people writing what they know. I think you mentioned you were a cyclist up there, I bet you could write a hell of a story about something simple like riding a bicycle. Because those are feelings you know. You know what lactic acid in the calves feels like when you get ten more miles to go. The devil is in the details, and the details build the story.
@@Ninjapiratecowboy I really feel like you're not reading what I'm typing closely before you respond because you're responses aren't exactly a strong acknowledgement of that.
Like for example, when you said you noticed I mentioned riding a bike, what was the context in which I mentioned riding a bike and the information that followed.
And I'm just listing the pros and cons of each option. Like for example, if you say "The devil's in the details", then exclusively writing about what you know means you've automatically limited the amount of details you can include in a given story. So say we have a story about an army private written by an army private. But within the confines of the story his wife gives birth to a child and he's in the room with her during delivery.
Now, in this case it's very easy to write things based on what we've seen in movies and TV because that's most of our only frame of reference. But that might not be accurate. He might describe a nurse saying or doing something a real nurse would never do. So to get those details right you'll have to seek out the information.
Additionally, you can use knowing what they would do to write something they wouldn't normally do as a signal to the audience. IE "Hey a real nurse would never do that... Something's fucky."
Also doing that research means that now you have that information set to use whenever you need it in the future. And like I mentioned earlier, another con is that all the stories will tend to sound like they were writing by the same person, even if they weren't meant to. Different people have different knowledge sets, vocabulary, filler words, syntax habits, and so on. I'm not saying you can't get good writing out of that method, just that it has its own inherent limitations.
The opposite does as well. It's a pain in the ass, it's a lot of work for an aspect the masses in general will never noticed. It's largely thankless work, especially for an internet story written for free. There's also high risk. To step out of your own personal knowledge set runs the risk of someone on the field finding it and nitpicking. And then something probably nobody would have even noticed becomes a focal point of the story because it's wrong. So there's more pressure to get it right.
There's a lot of extra effort, and if you're just trying to turn out a story it can go from a few days of writing to a month of work just based on that. Never mind if there's deeper plot elements and continuity at work.
But I still think this is an important aspect even in the context of the "write what you know" approach. Because it's easy to run into experience specific scenarios. Like flying on an airline for example. Someone who's never flown before has an infinite number of things to screw up about the experience if they've never done it before. So they have to choose to either avoid the experience in their story altogether, opting instead for "so we flew to the location", or to do due diligence and get a proper idea of the experience.
That's why I say that method is very much the "safe" way to go about it.
This will be wonderful again.
This is gonna be good
Setting premiere times is the story equivalent of blue balls :(
Exactly, and I'm a woman!! 😂
Cool i can hardly wait till iit start❤❤🙋♀️‼
The DBZA bit had me grinning.
Love listening to these.
The addition of the general order made me smile and laugh way harder than it should 🤘
Yr on top form of late, NT
From the lads in " Dracula in My Basement " to
The utterly marvellous..
" Dirty Work" the alternate Mafia & the boys, Louis & Mark & the Goons
Just 1st class
With amazing authors incl the incredible Joshua Waggoner & yr interpretation of set characters was stupendous
Thank You.
Dynamite story can't you wait to see what happens next!
Would love to hear Humper-monkey's ghost story in your voice man. Cannot get enough of your military story reads.
Looking forward to more! Good job N.T.
Let’s goooooooo I’ve been waiting so long
Good story,, Thank you for sharing with us
My favorite series!
Bravo another great episode
I love this series.
I just found this Channel and oh my God...I love the way you narrate the stories.
Love this series
Do you record one character all the way through or do you switch between as you go through the stories?
You are a great story teller.
Another good one, thank you
Hey Bro, I love your narrations and I listen to them all. If I may give you a couple tips from a former Marine….
- Don’t use the word whilst.. just say “while” in place of “whilst”. No Marine uses that word.
- 5.56 mm in pronounced “five point five six”. Not “five point fifty six”.
Like I said earlier. I LOVE YOUR narrations. Please keep them coming, just thought I would give a Marine’s perspective on this series. 😀
Damn! Out of all the Marine Weird shit stories I’ve heard, from various narrators, many seem to be at 29 Palms. Too many. I’d love to hear more of this one, and if I were to wager that was an inhuman demonic entity, or an extraterrestrial alien entity. Just wearing a humans skin. But not a skinwalker. And I’d have to agree with said entity, It was Not his day! Great story!
I'm a prior FMF corpsman and can confirm navy head shrinkers are as described in this story. Garbage.
Yay💕 Only 205 minutes to go😁
Your ability to do accents is mind-blowing.
My body is ready
Ok, King lol
“That’s a great fucking question, Hippie!” Love this line.
I can't wait
Is there a part two coming or is that it
It would be nice to listen to this without all interruptions of commercials. Its maddening !
That was awesome! 🐙💜💙🍻
I need part b please and thank you
Fast forward bar to end. Then hit replay and no adds. You're welcome.
Captivating
Honestly I love the story the commercials every 30 seconds f****** ruined it
YES good to be back in the military!
IT'S BACK LET'S GO BOISSSS
ok... i thought this was part of the story, but at about the 4min mark, I heard a woman's voice advertising Iron Mountain Data Products, -a legit company.. LOL!
Ahhhh don't stop there!!!
Been a while since one of these were made
I love it😂desert psycho ? Sounds like a vicious biotch
Damn, your accents are on point! *tips hat*
I love the channel and story but good lord is 10 commercial breaks enough!?!?
That shouldn't be there, I disabled midroll ads... YoutTube is a PUBE
@@NaturesTemper aye may have just been UA-cam being stupid, cause I watched several of your recent ones in a row and none of the others did it so, eh who knows
To all uninichiated yes I butchered the spelling.
Bugs Bunny and Last Airbender are cartoons.
Dragon Ball Z and Yu hi oh and Boondocks are examples of Anime.
Come on. I'm a Lava Dog. We're not THAT bad!!! 😂
You were in 2011!
@@Ninjapiratecowboy it was worse during Desert Storm! We had to prove ourselves to get back in the Commandant's good graces.
@@joaquinmccurty4762 what happend?
@@Ninjapiratecowboy back in the early 90s, 3rd Marines were wrapped up in this drug thing that happened during the invasion of Kuwait. When Saddam got a wild hair in his ass. Fast forward 12 to 13 years later, the Commandant at the time had been quoted as saying, "I wouldn't trust 3rd Marines to start a fire in the Pacific." My unit got wind of that bullshit. So. . .in order to give the Commandant a fuck you, we started a GOT DAMNED fire in the Pacific. Got wood, doused it in kerosene, wrapped it in plastic, as best we could, stacked the wood, and lit that bitch on fire and sent the video to Washington. Few months after that, we were on our way to combat.
@@Ninjapiratecowboy ok. I already sent the story. But I'm gonna repeat it in the most Barney way possible because UA-cam dont like swear words. Vaginas. . .any way! I'm from 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Regiment. I'm a Lava Dog stationed out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. In the early 90s, my late uncle served with Kilo 3/3. 12 years later, I'm serving in a brother unit, 1/3. Well during Desert Storm, 3rd Marines were mixed up in some. . . recreational narc scandal and some situations that involved "booger sugar" that stained the units reputation. I cannot for the life of me remember how we found out years later, that the Commandant of the Marine Corps was quoted as saying, "I wouldn't trust 3rd Marines to set a fire in the Pacific". So as a fuck you to the Commandant, guess what we did. He got the "anonymous" video, and months later, were sent into combat. Becoming one of most decorated units in Operation Phantom Fury. So. . .as I said. . . Lava Dogs? We're not that bad.
Hey Skott, you should consider reading the Diablo books that go along with the game by blizzard. They are very good I'm sure you would enjoy them. My Favorite of the series is Legacy Of Blood. Also idk if your into sci-fi but the Halo book series is absolutely amazing, I recommend fall of reach and Ghosts of Onyx. They are all great books, both halo series and diablo series, would be super dope if you could do all the books in chronological order or something, one step at a time though.
Much Love
~MiZ
3 ad breaks in 7 minutes?
That's unfortunate