{"id":1115,"date":"2006-12-06T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2006-12-06T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T08:38:00","slug":"questions-for-the-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/questions-for-the-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for the writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I know you&#8217;re out there. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How do you decide what POV to use? First-person is so hip and visceral, but third person gives you all sorts of possibilities with that nifty omniscience thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How do you pick a tense and then stick with it? Why is it that I am constantly morphing into present continuous? <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How can I make dialogue seem less manufactured and more fluid?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How can I convey accents without seeming like a total moron?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, suddenly I&#8217;m realizing I have so much to learn when it comes to fiction writing. In short spurts, I can write fiction like a champ. But when I have to stretch my imagination and my prose, it begins to suck, and hard. And these are my four biggest problems.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a writing class is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I know you&#8217;re out there. \u2022 How do you decide what POV to use? First-person is so hip and visceral, but third person gives you all sorts of possibilities with that nifty omniscience thing&#8230; \u2022 How do you pick a tense and then stick with it? Why is it that I am constantly morphing into present continuous? \u2022 How can I make dialogue seem less manufactured and more fluid? \u2022 How can I convey&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}