JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting

J. Gibson @planarlost.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Precise descriptions make narratives come alive. Focus on the specifics.

#WritingCommunity #AMWriting

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

The wachowskis speed racer I unironically love

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

I firmly believe no one is capable on their own of creating a cohesive story. It’s through collaboration and feedback that we find the way through, whether you’re a pantser or planner

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:41 UTC

Let’s all go back to AOL’s instant messenger and just talk there

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

I’m only doing bsky and Instagram! Checked out of so many others, threads TikTok, Facebook, that were junky and disingenuous out not productive to my goals

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

It’s a good point! The output is always more creative for me if I let it simmer a little. And as a completionist to a fault I have little to be concerned about

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

Actually I think it might be because I finally cinched my act ii woes that were both a legitimate challenge and a key focus of the rewrite. The character outlines are looking good, I know what can be pulled from the old draft and what needs to be rewritten, just a matter of putting them to paper. 📝

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

IVE DONE IT, I’ve reached the point where I’m sick of my current novel and excited about my new™️ idea.

but I can’t work on the new™️ thing until the previous one is finished, so here we are~

#writingcommunity #amwriting #authors 🖋️📖

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:36 UTC

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:35 UTC

Love the feeling of absolute despair as I realize a new and terrible way to ruin everything for my character, even as I’m not sure how he’ll solve it, it’s too good to pass up! To brutal, rather.

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

Let’s gooooo, I totally support permalinks on headstones and AR tracked force ghosts animatics of grandma waving or sitting quietly contemplative

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Just like Beyoncé!

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Judging by my error riddled comment above, it may be worth turning to editing for a spell

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

Hopefully you’re not on a kindle at that number

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

Yaaaay! I too managed to address a stacked short story a little today, there’s something in the air! Out possibly the water supply?

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:50 UTC

#WritingCommunity, describe your book poorly~

The people factory and recycling center frustrates space Amish who decide to send them all into the biggest soup in the universe.

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Idk maybe you all were already doing this and I’m just late to the party

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

4) tension and stakes It was easier before to cut away after a character accomplished some task, in search of drama elsewhere, but with one character at a time, every scene needs a series of trials. No action can exist without the formula ‘she tries X, but Y complicates it, so instead she does Z’ 🚀~

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

3) perspective & voice Before I had 7 POVs out of misplaced convenience. By forcing myself into 4 high-quality POVs, each carrying an entire ~3000 word chapter at a time, I’ve been pushed to develop the unique voice to convey the world, burying some details while gaining considerable interiority 🧠 ~

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

2) themes Building each character’s thoughts and reactions to major plot points has helped me tie their motivations more closely to the theme. I thought I had strong themes before, but now each character is expressing competing positions in each situation, which helps explore the ideas themselves 💡

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

1) amazing for pacing/tension earlier drafts suffered from exposition chapters, characters swept up with the plot but without specific goals, and characters twiddling their thumbs until the plot needed them. Seeing each story by itself forces me to contend with their goals and actions more directly~

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Working through my comprehensive rewrite, I found Brandon Sanderson’s advice like a life preserver 🛟 to a drowning man.

He said, outline and draft each POV character’s arc as its own story, then figure out how to interweave them. 📖
#writingcommunity #amwriting

Here’s why I love this process 🧵:

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

Cosmic ambient cyberpunk banjo mostly

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

Someone call the Oxford dictionary committee

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

Scavengers reign is sooo good!

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:04 UTC

July 6th: Part of the rewrite I’m currently embarking on~

(The alt text wasn’t long enough, here’s the last line:

“Caretaker does not move the sentiment of the Sovereignty, only codifies its inexorable trends.”)
#EdgeOfEden

#writingprompt #writingcommunity #amwriting #authors #writers 🔱🖋️

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

Woohoo, another 2500 words today, and finished revising the previous chapter draft. chapters 1-4 are done-ish, 8 more chapters to go before the rewrite is done and I can finish revising downstream~

🖋️🔱

#writingcommunity #authors #amwriting

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:37 UTC

WILD almost reads as a nonsequiter but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued. Very labyrinth coded

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

Yeah I think overall in the series (whether or not Wells intended it) the struggle and arc of dramatic tension centers around Murderbot’s emotional trauma and self isolation in its relationships, while the action is more a backdrop, a foregone conclusion. You’ll see that even more in the next book.

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

Dear #writingcommunity I am once again reaching out for recommendations on writing conferences. I went to the Seattle conference and it was amazing, I learned a ton and got a request for 10 pages from an agent. Anything else this year I should check out? Ideally late July or November-February?
🖋️📖

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

Good review! Overall I agree with the hand waving somewhat, though I feel like Wells appropriately establishes all the actions murderbot is capable of beforehand, so there’s no convenient dues ex machina to end it, just hyper-prescient self aware multitasking

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

Had one book sale for Black Throated Blue last month, and to that one purchaser, thank you! 🙏
A reminder I do need to occasionally plug my cozy animal and nature fiction novella so people can discover it!

Mybook.to/BTBW
Ebook, physical copy, or audio book! Find what works for you~

🪶📖

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:50 UTC

Sobering point! A good reminder when I’m hyperfixating on the finer details of language and theme. In the end of the day it’s supposed to be entertaining and clear over everything else

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:46 UTC

Although it closely follows the events of the first season of the show, I loved some of the choices and insight into the mindscapes of our characters. Really adds a lot. A blindingly fast read and relatively simple language, even at 700 pages making it both riveting and smooth.
💙📚🔱 #scifi #booksky

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:41 UTC

A deep dive into the etymology and history of our collective mythos surrounding consciousness and the nature of the soul. conceptualization driving every sci-fi ever, distilled into this archeological investigation full of telling quotes, and mind blowing alternative modes of thought.

#booksky 💙📚

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

# 4 in the foreigner series and #1 in the 2nd trilogy. They are FINALLY on the spaceship and for how sci-fi fantasy this has been, Cherryh is great at working in hard science and having them impact the plot. The first writer who described station conditions realistically 💙📚🔱

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

Book three in the foreigner series. The masterclass in political maneuvering and interiority! This was the deciding factor if I was going to continue reading the series or not and I’m so excited for the second trilogy! I love the writing style of Cherryh, a joy to read~

💙📚🔱
#booksky #scifi

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:58 UTC

Book reads for June! Lot of long books this month, so fewer overall.
💙📚 #booksky

Reviews in thread 🧵 ~

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:37 UTC

I’ve honestly done this close to 20 times now, and all across the country!

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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting @jpspalding.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:44 UTC

She doesn’t even need the lamp, assuming there’s a stable pheromone trail weaving down into the cave

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