Hey hey! I wrote a little thing about jump scares!

https://imprompt2.beehiiv.com/p/jump-scares

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I have less of a point or argument here than a musing. But I wrote about my fascination with fairy-tale time, its unpinnability, and how I keep wondering what relation that might have to the pseudo-contemporary non-time we find in many realistic stories.

What do you think?

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https://bit.ly/4bJnIst

Here's a musing on art and writing by the co-writer of my newsletter. She's talking about objects as a window into character. Which I love.

But I also like to think about how any object or art or allusion to a different story (whether known by the reader or not) opens a door in a story and makes the world bigger and stranger.

What do you think?

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https://imprompt2.substack.com/p/when-walls-talk

This month's imprompt2 is about conversations again--about how a story is always in conversation with the larger world. (I didn't write this one, except a tiny little bit at the end, but I think it's excellent and it's about one of my favorite things to think about.)

How does your writing interact with (or refuse to acknowledge) all the baggage a reader brings from the outside world?

https://bit.ly/NavLearnEx

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I wrote about how fairy tales are conversation & collaboration (& also multi-verse). I think fairy tales make it obvious, but I also think all storytelling is this way. We're always sharing tools & ideas & frameworks.

How much do you think about your story's dependencies on other stories, other writers, and eventual readers? Do you leave openings for other people to talk back?

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https://imprompt2.substack.com/p/fairy-tales-as-multiverse

This is a substack (I know--hate me!) I wrote about the problems of sacrificing characters and what can happen when you first let them live.

And now I'm wondering... How do YOU draw the outlines of loss? How do you give shape to the hole that is left, making a real ghost and not just a vague nothing?

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https://imprompt2.substack.com/p/the-last-of-us-and-characters-who