{"id":2399,"date":"2018-03-25T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Ive-discovered-that-if-an-author-can-open-with-a-motivated-character-in-a-surprising-and-dynamic-situation-they"},"modified":"2018-03-25T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:01:06","slug":"ive-discovered-that-if-an-author-can-open-with-a-motivated-character-in-a-surprising-and-dynamic-situation-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/03\/25\/ive-discovered-that-if-an-author-can-open-with-a-motivated-character-in-a-surprising-and-dynamic-situation-they\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve discovered that if an author can open with a motivated character in a surprising and dynamic situation, they&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered that if an author can open with a motivated character in a surprising and dynamic situation, they are likely to keep my attention for the whole book, unless they stumble severely. The first step to this is crafting a first line &#8211; though, actually, it needn&#8217;t be the first step chronologically. You can go back and do it after you&#8217;ve figured out everything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some compelling first lines, with brief analysis of what makes them so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.craftliterary.com\/2018\/03\/02\/opening-lines\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I&#8217;ve discovered that if an author can open with a motivated character in a surprising and dynamic situation, they&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/03\/25\/ive-discovered-that-if-an-author-can-open-with-a-motivated-character-in-a-surprising-and-dynamic-situation-they\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}