{"id":2859,"date":"2015-06-14T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Situation-A-dramatic-situation-is-unstable"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:34:38","slug":"situation-a-dramatic-situation-is-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/14\/situation-a-dramatic-situation-is-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation: A dramatic situation is unstable."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Situation:<\/strong> A dramatic situation is unstable. It will not stay as it is, and it has at least two possible outcomes, one desirable and one undesirable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a plotted story, the situation contains the germ of conflict, leading to change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an unplotted or circular story, the situation at the end is the same as at the beginning, but the reader understands it better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you start your story with a situation in mind, look for a character who has a stake in the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story will often pass through multiple intermediate situations, some of them unexpected, on the way from beginning to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#shortfiction Damon Knight<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Situation: A dramatic situation is unstable.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/14\/situation-a-dramatic-situation-is-unstable\/\">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":[94,88],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}