{"id":7597,"date":"2013-08-18T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2013-08-18T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T16:56:47","slug":"now-and-again-you-know-you-need-a-scene-but-it-wont-come-clear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/now-and-again-you-know-you-need-a-scene-but-it-wont-come-clear-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Now and again you know you need a scene but it won&#039;t come clear&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often you can just plunge ahead, note that it needs to be there and add it later, on the edit.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t one of those.<\/p>\n<p>It took me two WEEKS, but I finally got it.<\/p>\n<p>Very small scene. Most people will never figure why it could give anybody trouble&#8212;but brother! Such a pain!<\/p>\n<p>As a rule, the hardest scenes to write are the little ones that &#8216;direct&#8217; a mood or opinion. This is why most people don&#8217;t understand the writerly rule &#8220;show, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221; What it really means is&#8212;take the reader on that mental trip: don&#8217;t just narrate it&#8230;TAKE him there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often you can just plunge ahead, note that it needs to be there and add it later, on the edit. This wasn&#8217;t one of those. It took me two WEEKS, but I finally got it. Very small scene. Most people will never figure why it could give anybody trouble&#8212;but brother! Such a pain! As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}