{"id":745,"date":"2010-07-15T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/07\/15\/every-time-i-turn-my-back\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:56:00","slug":"every-time-i-turn-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/07\/15\/every-time-i-turn-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Time I Turn My Back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;my WIP starts Telling instead of Showing. Argh. I start out a writing session full of elegance and subtly, and then, as soon as I get roaring along in the scene, I find myself writing: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She felt sad. Very sad. She wanted to cry. <br \/>&#8216;I&#8217;m going to cry!&#8217; she cried to him. <br \/>He was sad she felt so bad. <br \/>&#8220;Don&#8217;t cry,&#8221; he urged her urgently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I have complete sympathy for authors whose third or forth, or thirty-fourth book is worse than their first. These frickin&#8217; words are like chimpanzees, they have to be watched for errant mischief <i>all the time<\/i> or pretty soon they start throwing poo at the guests.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;m doing rather well. Clipping right along with my new pirate scene. No piracy has actually transpired yet, but the heroine just murdered a fat prince and I think she&#8217;s about to jump out the cabin porthole to avoid the inevitably unfortunate consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;my WIP starts Telling instead of Showing. Argh. I start out a writing session full of elegance and subtly, and then, as soon as I get roaring along in the scene, I find myself writing: She felt sad. Very sad. She wanted to cry. &#8216;I&#8217;m going to cry!&#8217; she cried to him. He was sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}