![]() Those were assholes who earned the full large soda someone tossed at them. Now, the night of the release, while I waited in line, a group of teens who were at the front of the line rolled slowly past the rest of us, reading passages aloud dealing with major plot points. They had a right to discuss the thing that thrilled them in public, and I didn’t have a right to police their conversation for my comfort, which is sort of how I view most chatter about TFA that’ll happen between when it releases and when I see it. I hadn’t finished the book yet, so I picked up my things and moved (they were pretty involved, I don’t think it bothered them much). The second time I went (four days later), there was a couple gushing about Deathly Hallows next to me in the cafe. I also went to a bookstore about four days later on a normal shopping trip. When the seventh Harry Potter came out, I was in line for the midnight release. Otherwise, you’re just on FULL BLAST BROADCAST, which I guess is arguably one of the negative sides of social media. ![]() Discussion is meaningful when it’s with people who have the context needed. Go find people who have read it explicitly, then talk to them. I want you to talk about the work! But talking about the work isn’t the same as yelling it into the ear of some guy sitting down at a Starbucks. ![]() I mean, sure, I can’t control how you consume it or what you do with it.īut I can, just the same, hope you don’t barf up spoilers of my work into other people’s mouths - they’re not baby birds, they don’t need you feeding them that way. ![]() Those moments are part of the fabric of the narrative - and tearing them out of the fabric and plopping them on the ground is rude and destructive to the thing I just endeavored to create. I want you to experience it inside the work. I engineer those moments precisely because I want them to be read organically as part of the piece - I don’t want it told to you as some kind of narrative data point. Like, my greatest pleasure is sitting over someone’s shoulder as they read new pages of my work and they get to one of those moments. ![]() I’ll add, too, to this discussion that as a storyteller I very clearly try to orchestrate big, jaw-dropping moments in the work - yes, the small moments and emotional beats are important, too, but I love to have those dramatic plot events where SHIT GOES BUCK WILD. ![]()
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