dimension20brennan

OH MY GOD!!! THIS ABSOLUTELY MAKES MY DAY!!! Congratulations to you, what an amazing achievement!! Woohooo!!

In my opinion, Impostor Syndrome is a dragon guarding a door, and the trick is to realize there’s nothing you actually need on the other side of the door, so you don’t actually need to confront the dragon. If you DM, and are terrified the entire time? You still DM’d! You still did it!!! Sit with yourself and ask: Is my uncertainty going to prevent me from doing this thing I love? Are my nerves going to make me put my dream on the ground and walk away? If they’re not, you have PERMISSION to be NERVOUS, because you’re still going to do the damn thing, and doing the damn thing is the only thing that counts!! Whether you were nervous or not!! And after enough times doing the damn thing, the Dragon will still pop up and say “You cannot defeat me and pass through the door into the Chamber of Self-Confidence!” and you will just go “My goal is not to find the Chamber of Self-Confidence. My goal is to find the Chamber of Running a Fun D&D Session, and that’s in a totally different direction, and actually I have to be going,” and you will walk away and the dragon will have its feelings super hurt, and will dwindle and diminish, and then one day you’ll find out the arched chamber at the back of the Chamber of Running a Fun D&D Session actually has a secret doorway that leads to a tunnel that opens into the Chamber of Self-Confidence without having to go through the Dragon Door, and you ended up finding it totally by accident. Does this make sense? What a wild analogy!

You’re going to do great!! Break so many legs, it’s going to be amazing!! Keep those PCs on their toes, wishing you all the best!

-Brennan

Do you mean backup as in “before filming started,” or backup as in “partway through the season”? 😈

-Brennan

You're thinking of Sam Reich. HEY u/samreich SOMEONE'S GOT A QUESTION FOR YA!

Everything I know about stories I learned from my Mom. If I have any storytelling skills at all, there wouldn’t be a single one I could point to without telling you the way my Mom was ultimately responsible for it. The importance of learning and curiosity about our actual world as the foundation of good world-building, the need for emphasis as a tool of both writing and performance to direct an audience or reader’s focus, dynamism, timing, setting up and delivering an unexpected twist or plot hook - and as a meta-note not about storytelling itself but about being a storyteller, work ethic: All of this and vastly more I learned from her!

-Brennan

Oh, my gosh! I love everything about it! Brennan and the cast really got the whole tone of Starstruck. The episodes I’ve seen are just great.

I also really loved Brennan doing the CEO of Handy Andi.

-Elaine