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Short doc: How to Location Scout a Novel During Lockdown (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-22 05:01:49
Imported:
2026-06

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This is the short doc I screened at the Los Altos library in December about trying and failing to do research for Truth of the Divine in a time that was both yesterday and also 5000 eternities ago: 2020.

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This is "finalfinal" by Lindsay Ellis on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Comments

Matthew DeVries

Dear Lindsay, you do good work. The world is better for your work.

Jahames

Second I saw the notification on my phone for this I had to drop everything

Alesha

now im imagining nikola and bianca del rio having a wild ass time together, thank you

Simi Parquette

Love this and so glad you and Angelina got to go to Cambodia after all

John Rovell

This made my day. LONG LIVE TARANTULA D**K

Alvin Cura

Los Altos, CA? I'm in the next town over. I'm sorry I missed it in person.

Tyler Jennes

Now I'm wondering what's the logic behind tarantula dick. Like is there eight tiny legs or is it just one whole tarantula?

Tony M Parker

Seeing this with a live audience during the book signing was the highlight of 2022.

Mirage

So psyched for a new release from my favorite YouTuber, Tarantula Dick!

Rachel

Ditto. It was amazing.

Beth's Art

I'm getting a "Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here." message?

k.lumsy

Glad to see you coming around to Dawn FM. Also, you should be in jail for that cutoff.

Adam Giess

I know that font. That's a Transformers font!

Alexander

Loved the music! I was obsessed with “California Love” a couple of months ago.

Ariadne L

I kind of want merch that says “Lol” - The Future

Bryan Cybershaman(X) Logie

That was awesome! (The video, not the trials and tribulations it documented, although..."it builds chatacter"? Maybe? (Screw you, Cyber. Seriously. Screw. You.) 😉 Good luck with all future excursions, sojourns, and embarkations! 😎🤘☮️

Ryan Storey

This was a time capsule to a period of time that I have repressed entirely from my mind for... obvious reasons.

Jon Heiman

I was obsessed with it... [checks notes] _27_ years ago!

Tia Kushniruk

Enola/nikola was my favorite new character of TOTD and to hear that they were meant to be dramatic and influenced from drag really makes sense HAH

BestStressed

Seriously. Remembering how no one had decent masks and no one was really sure what was safe and sometimes places would just be DESERTED... things still feel kind of disrupted but wow were they worse back then.

Ariadne L

Alien flotsam and jetsam when

Genie Hossain

This is such an interesting time capsule from a period really not that long ago but feels like forever ago when certain areas were inaccessible. I remember during those first few months just wanting to travel out to various walking trails here in SoCal during my furlough period and that just not being a possibility for quite a while. Also I’ve frequented that Starbucks and there is indeed always that same frustratingly long line 🤣

Shrub Dryad

This use of "Free as a Bird" hurt me, 10/10.

Milanko Doroski

If you haven’t been already; I … we’ll it feels wrong to say “recommend”, but I do recommend the killing fields in Cambodia; it was devastating.

Ali Anne

Off topic but I love your sunglasses!

Arenie

I actually took my copy of the Truth of the Divine with me to the hospital last week to finally read it during recovery from major surgery, so really auspicious timing (at least for me), since everything is fresh in my mind. <3

Blake Fodor

It's so jarring hearing actual music in these kinds of internet videos

Greg Cobb

Hope your recovery went smoothly!

Henry Whiteman

i didn't realize that was why they sold the mortuary, I... just thought it was just taking more of a focus on the death education and green industry advocation. That's unfortunate...

Zardogs! Zardogs!

I'm going to use this as an excuse to say that I got Axiom's End from Audible and am loving it. I couldn't commit to the book based on sheer size and add it to the growing pile on my nightstand, but I wanted to read it so badly. I'm just accepting that this works better for my ADHD brain. So thanks for that revelation as well as a fun time. Looking forward to listening to Divine already.

Gian Balangue

Seeing some of these real-life locations from the books was so cool, especially since I don't live anywhere near LA! I can't wait for book 3 💖

energydiluted

So excited for book 3, any news is good news

Arenie

So far so good, thank you!

KSCHatch

Wow. What a historical video.

Ev G

Lindsay: Here it is, the worst thing Me: I don't know, an alien in a box is kinda *camera shows the words on the window* OMG!!!

Darrell Winfrey

Started publishing my books right as the pandemic started. A naturally 'lonely pursuit' was even lonelier. On the flip side, I was rarely interrupted and got a lot done within two years.

GracethofMoon

The true SoCal experience is seeing influencers everywhere you go… even during a pandemic 🧍🏻

Kristen Trawczynski

The bit about Enola being all "look at all this salt!!!!!!!" made me cackle so hard

sunlit_music

Thanks very much for the great video. *thumbs up*

Jack Baker

Almost done with Book 2. Honestly could not tell that you'd had problems accessing any of the real life locations you describe. Also thought the reference to the Cheesecake Factory was meant as a nod to your video on Fair Use (my favorite). Really looking forward to book 3!

Jack Baker

Finished Book 2. Now that you mention it, it does kinda stand out how everything happens in and around LA. My main criteque though is that whenever Kaveh is the POV character, sex becomes incredibly mechanical. I only remember one scene where Cora describes sex, and at least she's creative enough to describe wanting to get his dick wet, but for Kaveh, scenes seems less like a description of passion and intimacy and more of a sports play by play. I guess Kaveh was just never really into romance novels and such.

Ellie G.

I’m currently doing base research for a story that I had initially intended to be a modern commentary on social media outrage and being on the outskirts of scandal. But I realized that I really really don’t want people figuring out what I’ve based it on (because I don’t want to get sued should I ever share this with people). So it’s taking place about 1980 before any of my inspiration happened and is turning into a commentary on media firestorms more generally. Which sadly means I have to ditch all of my satirical fake Twitter posts about the events of the story, which you win some you lose some. So I’ve placed one of the protagonists as being from my parents’ hometown which is actually really fun because I get to draw on a lot of their experiences in and for my research. However, most of the book takes place in Southern California where I’ve never been and I don’t have travel money or time etc. And I have found looking up locations is actually really fun. So I definitely love the look at the creative process! (Even though if we’re being completely honest, no one is ever going to see my writing lol).

Ellie G.

There are actually direct parallels between aspects of my own extended family and aspects of this one protagonist’s family which is actually sort of a loving tribute. Which is good that they ended up in that side of the story because the other protagonist’s family is them, hi they’re the problem it’s them. My other ongoing creative writing project is inspired by my family in negative ways. Though also dramatically overblown and my family was not you know in a murderous cult like that protagonist’s family. And it’s telling that I like the fictional shitty Aunt character the main character has to deal with feelings of betrayal from more than I like my own Aunt the character is based off of. Well my own Aunt is a better person, but at least I enjoy writing what she inspired.

Cammie

I'm a new subscriber and I keep getting a message saying "Private Video. Sorry, you don’t have permission to watch." :( Anybody know how to get around this? I logged into Vimeo even...