A novel assembled from six distinct voices — B W Otto, Clod Hopper, Reach Chimes, Keren Simone, narrator Oyparaploo Lamb, and animal voice Goat — Good Grounds documents the evolution of a creative practice in real time, from its earliest conversations to the present day.
The work employs a unique two-layer structure: “surface” sections covering historical conversations and “underground” sections providing present-day commentary. Written in Oypara Soil Deep Blue — a language invented for the project — with intentional grammar breaks and a philosophy that treats uncertainty as material, the novel asks what happens when the act of making becomes the subject of the work itself.
Good Grounds is not a story about arrival. It is a record of remaining — of staying in conversation with a practice that refuses to settle. Each voice carries its own weight, its own cadence, its own refusal. Together they build something that could not exist alone.
Featuring the Receiver Turn technique that shifts writing from “I” to “we” — from testimony to invitation — the work emerges from Oyparaploo’s three-layer methodology: Layer 1 (Lovely Quietness) for creation spirit, Layer 2 (AI-Detection) for verification, and Layer 3 (Master) for deep revision.
Six distinct writers, each carrying their own weight, cadence, and refusal.
This evolving document traces the full arc of the collaborative methodology — from the earliest voice experiments through the crystallization of the three-layer system. Featuring all six author voices and the invented language Oypara Soil Deep Blue.
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All images will be replaced with original Oyparaploo photography and artwork. Good Grounds is an ongoing collaborative work by Reach Chimes and Clod Hopper, produced under the Oyparaploo creative practice, Minneapolis.
