{"id":879,"date":"2016-04-23T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2016-08-26T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:22:53","slug":"writers-and-writing-42316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/writers-and-writing-42316\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers and writing 4\/23\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are a lot of people who would like to write a few things, learn a few things, but true writers are rare and they are not getting a lot of help.<\/p>\n

Writers who want to move into the lands of imagination learn by reading other writers rather than in seminars or creative writing classes.<\/p>\n

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At any rate, the magic words ‘Once Upon A Time’ still send people into a state of hypnosis, the construction of a magic realm where unaccountable things happen.<\/p>\n

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Tools.<\/p>\n

When action occurs, your sentences must grow shorter and shorter. No interior monologues or memories flashing back while the action is going on<\/strong><\/em>. It looks ridiculous. It doesn’t make your character ‘layered’ or ‘deep’ or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Read books which have dealt with the above problems (or sections of books) and learn from the old writers. \u00a0Two recommendations; the chapters dealing with the invasion of Atlanta in Gone With The Wind<\/strong><\/em> and the escape from Paris in Tale Of Two Cities<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of people who would like to write a few things, learn a few things, but true writers are rare and they are not getting a lot of help. Writers who want to move into the lands of imagination learn by reading other writers rather than in seminars or creative writing classes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}