{"id":28325,"date":"2015-12-10T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=28325"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:59:07","slug":"on-the-spoilering-of-a-certain-star-wars-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/12\/10\/on-the-spoilering-of-a-certain-star-wars-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Spoilering Of A Certain Star Wars Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.dilcdn.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/09\/Phasma.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.dilcdn.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/09\/Phasma.jpeg?resize=699%2C466\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-spoilers-and-the-force-awakens\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I said some stuff on Twitter today about\u00a0<em>spoilers<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and I thought I&#8217;d bleat them out here, too. Because there&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>certain movie<\/em> coming out next week and it lands in some international territories earlier than others and I feel like there&#8217;s been a very effective curtain pulled across the story so far, and it&#8217;d be awesome to help keep that curtain pulled tight for those folks who cannot immediately jump out and see the movie the moment it exists in the world. Like, I know most of the movie, but I&#8217;m not gonna tell you about it because I want you to experience it yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Engage Storify:<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-spoilers-and-the-force-awakens\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-spoilers-and-the-force-awakens.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-spoilers-and-the-force-awakens\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;On Spoilers and The Force Awakens&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add, too, to this discussion that as a storyteller I very clearly try to orchestrate big, jaw-dropping moments in the work &#8212; yes, the small moments and emotional beats are important, too, but I love to have those dramatic plot events where SHIT GOES BUCK WILD. Like, my greatest pleasure is sitting over someone&#8217;s shoulder as they read new pages of my work and they get to one of those moments. I can barely contain my excitement. I engineer those moments precisely because I want them to be read organically as part of the piece &#8212; I don&#8217;t want it\u00a0<em>told<\/em> to you as some kind of narrative data point. I want you to experience it inside the work. Those moments are part of the fabric of the narrative &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure, I can&#8217;t control how you consume it or what you do with it.<\/p>\n<p>But I can, just the same, hope you don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>barf up\u00a0<\/em>spoilers of my work into other people&#8217;s mouths &#8212; they&#8217;re not baby birds, they don&#8217;t need you feeding them that way. I want you to talk about the work! But talking about the work isn&#8217;t the same as yelling it into the ear of some guy sitting down at a Starbucks. He hasn&#8217;t read it. Go find people who have read it explicitly, then talk to them. That&#8217;s how conversation works. Discussion is meaningful when it&#8217;s with people who have the context needed. Otherwise, you&#8217;re just on FULL BLAST BROADCAST, which I guess is arguably one of the negative sides of social media. Noise overwhelming signal and all that.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY.<\/p>\n<p>Them&#8217;s my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Do with them as you will.<\/p>\n<p>*jetpacks away*<\/p>\n<p>*hits a tree*<\/p>\n<p>*dies*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said some stuff on Twitter today about\u00a0spoilers, and I thought I&#8217;d bleat them out here, too. Because there&#8217;s a\u00a0certain movie coming out next week and it lands in some international territories earlier than others and I feel like there&#8217;s been a very effective curtain pulled across the story so far, and it&#8217;d be awesome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-7mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28332,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28325\/revisions\/28332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}