Hello friends, Ro here. It's been quite a while since I posted a new video on this channel, but that's about to change shortly, so I thought I'd hop back on here and let everybody know what's going on. For those of you who don't know what the channel is, I started the Mechanics of Fiction channel a few years ago to synthesize all the knowledge I accrued while studying fiction writing in graduate school. And the goal with the Mechanics lectures was to condense all that knowledge into a useful package, translate it from academic speak to normal human language, and share it with other fiction writers. I was pretty happy with the result. My hope then was that I put the content out there, and the people who needed it would find it. Unfortunately, that's not really how the algorithm works. The series is still here on this channel, and we'll always be here as a reference for people who know to look for it. But it's not going to find that many people on its own, and really the videos have been collecting figurative internet dust for a few years now, with only an intrepid few diving in. If you're one of those intrepid few, thanks. In order to help dust off the lectures themselves, and to break some new ground, I'm going to be starting a new series on this channel called Roe Rights. I've recently started publishing a weekly sci-fi series on my P.E. Roe YouTube channel. These are sci-fi short stories narrated by me in audiobook form with a new story each Thursday. I'm publishing the text on Substack on Wednesdays as well if you're interested, and prefer to read. Links to everything will be in the description of this video. Part of what's been interesting being such a regular practitioner of short story writing again is that on such a tight timeline, I'm really forced to apply the principles in the mechanics lectures. I find myself going back to the notes book often, and thinking about narrative problems as I'm writing every week. So this new series is going to blend these two projects together. They won't be formal lectures in the way the original lecture series was, but it'll be me discussing a specific story I've released and a specific narrative aspect or two that jumped out to me as important while I was writing the story. Some of what will be covered will echo the original lecture series, but one way to think of it is that the original series is fiction theory, and this will give insight into the way this one fiction writer puts that theory into practice, and I'll discuss it using the vocabulary from the lectures and referring back to them. So I'm sure a lot of stuff I didn't get a chance to cover in the original lectures will come out as well. Initially, I think I'm going to try and do a video by weekly, and I'll see how people respond. I'm open to adapting it in response to feedback, and if people like the series, I'll continue to do it. So I hope you'll join me and follow along. The first talk will be linked in the cards at the end of this video. It's for the story of the first man, and we'll be talking about implicit knowledge and spontaneity in the writing process, and the stranger narrative. Lastly, I should say that though the genre I'm writing these new short stories in is sci-fi, this series, like the mechanic series, won't strictly be about sci-fi. It'll be focused on narrative, craft, and techniques that can be generalized to fiction writing as a whole. So it should be useful to writers who aren't interested in writing sci-fi. All are welcome. If you'd like to be notified when a new episode comes out, please hit the bell and the subscription button, and hopefully we'll see you there. Thanks for stopping by, and we'll see you soon.