Glossed Over: 4/5 Content Overviews, 3 Locked Subsaidits, 2 Open Discussions, Reflections, And A Challenge

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GLOSSED OVER - 4/5 Content Overviews, 3 Locked Subsaidits, 2 Open Discussions, Reflections, And A Challenge

4/5 Content Overviews, 3 Locked Subsaidits, 2 Open Discussions

For over six months I've been talking about my two big projects that I was going to develop, here on SaidIt. I've now finally outlined them in Bittersweet Seeds: Content Overview and Trutherism 101: Content Overview. I've even outlined my production management sub, Glossed And Profound: Content Overview. These basic summaries of each project with a table of contents sub will evolve with updates, much like a wiki article. You may notice 3 of these subs are restricted with locked posts. This is to cleanly present the projects and organize all open discussion comments under this 1 sub rather than monitor chaos across 3 subs. Feel free to respond to my G.O posts or submit your own questions and ideas and I'll add notable posts to the Glossed Over: Content Overview. Truther Top 20s remains open for discussion too, and it will eventually get revised and the content overview being drafted on its wiki. TT20 will get more attention later, parallel to T101 developments.

Initially I posted a title with an empty text field then spent a few days refining the bodies of the content overviews. They're polished now, so I welcome constructive criticisms on them in this Glossed Over sub. Not the best way to do it, though for future posts I'll work on drafts in the wikis and when polished post them with a linked parallel post here in G.O for discussion.

Reflections

Is this the best way to organize things?

I don't know. It seems to be the best way I know of at the moment. As I keep saying, " If we don't try we'll never know. If we don't try we'll never achieve success no matter how great or small. "

Why am I wasting so much time drafting and presenting all this content?

Sure, I might be well into my projects or even near completion if I focused away from social media. But I must impress upon you that it's not just about creating agitprop content in a vacuum that rejects status quo systems. It's also about building alternative open solutions and supportive communities to resist the rigged establishment matrix.

I'd also like to really focus your attention to one particular paragraph on the GaP Overview...

" I know how to write well enough. I know how to animate professionally. I know how to be a creative director and filmmaker. I know little about business, finance, taxes, laws, community building, or worker-directed enterprises. Working on movies or an animated series is not new to me but creating and managing a successful business, not to mention one so far outside the box like GaP, will be the greatest challenge of my life. If this online worker co-op project fails then I'll be forced to develop my creative projects alone. "

That's why I came with my dreams to SaidIt for feedback.

The GaP, BsS, and T101 subs are restricted. By contributing efforts you may earn merit, trust, access, and a seat at the table. The more good ideas, work produced, and good content created, the merrier.

Granted, there's still not much to get excited about yet. I don't expect a flood of feedback immediately or even down the line, much less assistance. Though I do hope. But I know I'll need to lead by example. I don't want to be leader so much as an inspiration for others to build greater things upon what I can bring to these humble foundations. I don't expect great mass success, but I hope to earn respect from folks with a variety of viewpoints and the strong convictions that we can do better, expect better, and make better, for ourselves and our world.

For now, I have one centralized GaP To Do List as a roadmap where folks may track my course, developments, and future plans. While good enough for now it needs some systemic refinement and development, records including accomplished tasks, dates, credits, etc. and a dedicated wiki page. Eventually the GaP To Do List will split when the other projects ramp up.

These are 3 long term projects that will take years to come to fruition. I don't expect your support right away. I don't expect you to be won over easily. But I do hope that you will stay tuned, pay attention, and follow these developments. If you think that any of this content has issues and can be improved, I insist that you let me know about it. Allow me the chance to earn your respect, feedback, and support, and together we can build these projects and a better fandom for the world.

And A Challenge

Now that I've outlined how my projects will unfold, I still have not revealed what I have in mind for their content - so before it's all unveiled I want to hear your ideas about where these stories may be going, what ideas might be presented, and what narrative themes could arc over them. I've dropped tiny clues here and there but never laid anything out of significance. The canvas is currently wide open for your speculations on both of them.

I want your predictions for what the Bittersweet Seeds and Trutherism 101 projects will be about.

I want to hear your ideas, much the way people speculated on how Game Of Thrones and The Avengers Endgame would play out. Now they're guessing what the next Star Wars movie will be about.

I'll soon present the actual T101 Conceptual Outline, Topical Overview, and shorter Content Summaries to clarify, build upon, and refine.

In contrast, Bittersweet Seeds has a 3 act structure with 2 parts in each act. Some are longer than others. In addition to this blank-canvas opportunity for you to pontificate, I will present this story in at least 6 parts, if not on a scene by scene basis. Each BsS section posted will have a corresponding G.O post asking for constructive criticism feedback and if people like, I hope they will speculate on what happens next.

Is this a gimmick?

You tell me. I don't think so. Maybe a little. If I were trying to make it a gimmick I'd be on busier forums. I'm trying to engage the SaidIt community, develop a dialogue, earn your attention, maybe get your participation, and perhaps foster some support down the road. I'm also trying to gauge how well any of this is being received. If you have better ideas how to do any of this lemme know.

▶ Glossed And Profound & Glossed Over & Truther Top 20s = FLOSS content ◀

▶ Bittersweet Seeds & Trutherism 101 © Jason Carswell of Glossed And Profound ◀

▶ Once established with sufficient momentum, sustainability, and security, these projects will be open-sourced. Upon the untimely demise of Jason Carswell all become F/LOSS.

▶ /s/GlossedOver + Content Overview + wiki, participation discussion over all 5 projects

▶ /s/GlossedAndProfound + Content Overview + wiki, management

▶ /s/BittersweetSeeds + Content Overview + wiki, in development

▶ /s/Trutherism101 + Content Overview + wiki + InfoGalactic T101, in development

▶ /s/TrutherTop20s + wiki + InfoGalactic TT20, ongoing

▶ donate options + merchandise store = coming eventually ◀

▶ GlossedAndProfound.com, BittersweetSeeds.com, and Trutherism101.com were registered on 2019-05-01 for future use. Long in conception, finally here on SaidIt, the official origin place, started on May Day, 2019. May 1 is a metonym for International Workers Day, a day of celebration of the working class. Behind it lies a complex largely forgotten history dating back over one-and-a-half centuries. Look into it.

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[–]HeyImSancho 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I read the OP, and am checking out some of the links; I guess I'm interested by way of knowing people across different aisles need to open dialogue, or communications to hash out differences, and find solutions, or squash non issues. However, in reading your opener, unless I missed something, it's still not disclosed what your end goals are? That's hard to do much more than just reading when time permits.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The sideboxes all state:

These are not regular Reddit-style subsaidits nor typical wiki articles.

The Glossed Over: Content Overview goes into more details with longer summaries.

I hope this answers your question. If not, please expand on what leaves you wondering, or check back on the developments in the weeks and months and years to come.

Meanwhile, since it's still a mystery of sorts, try to guess what the content may be about?

[–]HeyImSancho 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Oh man, you've got a lot done, but you've got something like climbing Mount Everest... with a gimped leg.. to go.

From what I 'got', it could work with good promotion.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm hoping good promotion can be grass roots, earned with good content and a solid GaP backbone. Unfortunately I have no significant experience with creating or running a production company or worker co-op or online community. I hope this naivete works to our advantage, but I don't expect it to. I expect GaP to be a far bigger project than all the others combined. Ironically all I really want to do it the creative stuff. Maybe, just maybe, others will step up and help develop the transparent open GaP system that can help me just be creative.

[–]HeyImSancho 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'll keep checking in to see how it's going. I'm a little wrapped up with some things I've got to get done, but could be interested in helping where I can.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thrilled to hear it!

I still have so much more to share before there's really anything significant to act upon on the BsS and T101 creative sides.

As for the GaP business side there are a few areas that need research, proposals, and setting up. 1) transparent online worker co-op, 2) transparent online accounting, 3) transparent online donation, gift, and store systems, 4) weighing web stores (options, products, ethics, etc. vs self produced).

I'm not in a hurry. I'd rather go slow and steady and securely with solid foundations than take miscalculated leaps of faith.

[–]HeyImSancho 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, I'm decent at research, and writing, but not so much on the computer technical stuff. I'll keep an eye on the progress.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All efforts and skill sets welcome.

I may need some help with my writing. I've already been told these are too long.

As I responded in the comments below my Glossed Over: Content Overview:

"These "Content Overview" posts are like my letter of intent or business plan, so I was aiming for clarity not brevity. I'm not really expecting anyone to read all of these over today but expect they will prove useful in the future. I've still got a bit more foundation to lay before I even get to the stories."

"Not everything will be this long. Some of the screenplay sections will be longer. I'd considered releasing the screenplay in half-act sections but always favoured publishing on a scene by scene basis."

"All Trutherism 101 scripts must be as short and tight as possible to conserve on animation and keep the comedy punchy."

Research on establishing all the transparent online stuff may be handy down the line.

Research finding the best web stores would be good too. I recently updated all the "Self-publishing" and "Self-printing products and custom merchandise" on Wikipedia that I could find, and included them in the "see also" sections of all of them, ie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CafePress That was in anticipation of the day I'd actually need to bother researching into them, and hopefully others, to find the best one(s). Not just for my projects, but I intend to present our findings to /u/magnora7 and /u/d3rr to make a SaidIt web store either together or separately.

And eventually I'd like every episode of Trutherism 101 (or whatever it is ultimately titled), to have the best of the best informative content gathered together (ie. /s/TrutherTop20s) and well organized to support the cases presented.

I don't expect any instant commitments. I expect to earn support in these endeavours.