Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book six, currently untitled: "With her there, it was marvellous, but it only sharpened how little there was to do without her. I wound up the music player, but without her to correct my steps it felt a bit pointless. I sat and read, books I’d brought back from Kerubfjan and left there when we went off to Dryssat, but I could do that anywhere and it just felt a bit cold and plain reading without her to be leaning up against or chatting to in breaks between chapters."

#WIPSnips "Chapter" from FotF#6, untitled as of yet.

AL's never really had a life that permitted leisure time. As a result…they don't really know what to do with it.

Ebook screenshot of the table of contents from Flight of the Fates, book one, Fight or Flight: "Chapters 1: Velvet 2: Prideful Creatures 3: Number Three 4: Monkeyman and the Dragonfly 5: Sam 6: Fish 7: Wings 8: Vent 9: Molly Miss 10: Payday and Provocation 11: Rubbed Raw 12: Paid What's Earned 13: To the Death 14: Glitter 15: Captivity 16: Grindstone 17: Target Fixation 18: Decay, not Death 19: Flash or Fade 20: Lost but not Forgotten 21: The Cave 22: The Fates Epilogue"

Also, just for fun and because it was mentioned (and I do think I have some kinda fun chapter titles) - the list of chapters from FotF#1, Fight or Flight!

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book six, currently untitled: "With her there, it was marvellous, but it only sharpened how little there was to do without her. I wound up the music player, but without her to correct my steps it felt a bit pointless. I sat and read, books I’d brought back from Kerubfjan and left there when we went off to Dryssat, but I could do that anywhere and it just felt a bit cold and plain reading without her to be leaning up against or chatting to in breaks between chapters."

#WIPSnips "Chapter" from FotF#6, untitled as of yet.

AL's never really had a life that permitted leisure time. As a result…they don't really know what to do with it.

You miss out on a few bucks, they miss out on an awesome you - feels like you're the winner in that scenario tbh! Also, though, I'm sorry; it can suck to feel duped <3

I coded up a spreadsheet to keep track of wordcount and such, and also to estimate final word count and completion time based off of averages.

Current estimate: ~7 million words, on September 12 2031 if I keep up my average pace…

I love the varying degrees of finished-ness of it all haha XD

~for after she starred in a play. Party went all night and I'm writing it from the POV of every single guest (25 total). Currently 1.5 million words, finished 4 characters…longest single book (one book per character) is 450k words long.

Wildest WIP plot: intergalactic starship can only warp-jump while someone is having an orgasm, but due to a serious of mishaps, there is now only one (1) non-asexual crewmember aboard.

Wildest WIP structure: an afterparty thrown by my wife's TTRPG character (pink tiefling paladin/warlock)~

Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

My spouse always puts spices on - Tajin, Tony Chachere's, whiskey bourbon blend, whatever we've got and usually something different every time. I just. Normal.

I like spice and spices, too! Just- I don't even know, Kraft Dinner is like- locked into my brain as what it is. Autism comfort food XD

…that sounds fantastic. My answer is very embarrassing now: "Well, water, first. Then milk and margarine, like it says to on the box."

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…I was just trying to follow the rules…

Me: "Is that a challenge?"

Coward XD

All of this awareness will also help you, hugely, all on its own. You'll have it in mind while you're writing, and it'll inherently guide you toward implementing those devices and frameworks in your own writing!

Maybe the Borg weren't so wrong. Maybe assimilation is actually kinda good?
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In order to do this, you'll need to form awareness of what goes into a piece: what separates plot from prose, form from format, where the intersections and crossovers are. You'll need to become aware of tropes, of genre norms, of all sorts of different aspects of writing!
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Think instead about the general form, the way the characters interrelate; you love LotR and also Holes? You might want to have an earnest, grounded, near-underdog of a supporting character (Sam, or Sam [or Zero]).

Break down what works about the plot. Pull apart the metaphors. Dive into it.
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Looking intently over works that you love - books, poems, articles, essays, passages, whatever - can give a lot of guidance.

Don't just think about recreation, but about larger picture: LotR is about a hobbit destroying a ring. Don't write one about a hobbit destroying a necklace.
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#WritingCommunity #WritingTips

Learn by disassembly.

Take things you like apart, and see what makes them tick. Why they work.

It's incredibly useful, and gives two-fold benefits as well: you'll gain tips and guidance, and you'll also gain vital awareness.
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This was news to my wife who is from Georgia and is full of alligator facts.

Also:
Wife: "Are you asking me because I have a lot of alligator facts or because I'm a scaly?"
Me: "Look. That's not important."

Forget two wolves, this is what's inside of me.

Right? Ugh. I'm so sorry. I mean I know I'm living it too, but I think that really does qualify me to also be sorry about it XD

Also he's totally wrong. A ham sandwich on rye slaps. With a little mustard and sauerkraut? Ugh, forget about it! What's he want it on, white bread?! Fuck that guy. Fuck that white bread ham sandwich bastard. He's a little bitch.

People any time before the Industrial Revolution: "Anyone who makes the exact same thing twice is a Master, akin to a God, or perhaps a witch theirself!"

This guy: "Asking for your ham sandwich on rye means you're An Unnatural Loser, Actually."

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book one, Fight or Flight: "CHAPTER 1: Velvet Old bones. That was what they said - the almost constant creaking aboard the ship, that’s what they said it was. She was an old ship, they said, and her old bones creaked. She sagged and slumped like any old-timer, any elderly man or woman you’d see, and she’d creak and groan and sigh when she did. Sitting in her dock-cradle like an oldster’s chair, pushing off from her moorings to hove out again. If it was going to rain. If it was too dry."

It's more sensible in context with the first follow-up paragraph, but I thought it was more fun to answer with the strictest (and thus silliest) definition of "opening line", haha!

For reference, here's the opening paragraph:

Loosely, fantasy; it's a steampunk with thriller, mystery, and romance vibes. The "old bones" in question are actually a reference to the creaking of the airship that MC shovels coal on.

I think I'll be hard-pressed to get much of a shorter opening sentence, though!

A bunch of blue tubs on a bookshelf, with a few LEGO items amongst them.

The blue tubs, open on the floor. They are full of LEGO bricks, organized loosely by type and then by colour as well.

A single LEGO light brick, circa late '90s: a white, ⅔ height 1x4 brick with a single filament wheat bulb in the place of each of its outermost pips. Coloured plastic shells fit over the bulbs to change the colours of the lights. Unseen underneath, metal contact integrate into the underside to conduct electricity via LEGO power bricks, which had metal contacts in the sides of their pips.

Also update on my search: been searching since my prior post. Have located one (1) lights brick, but zero (0) battery power bricks. Have exhausted the upstairs supply of LEGO. I know there's more, though…

…somewhere…

That would be awesome! I remember the little… oh shoot I don't remember what they called it. Little LEGO computer with sensor blocks, motor blocks, could be used to make little programmable light robots. That taken to the modern level would be fantastic!