{"id":2866,"date":"2015-06-14T00:39:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Story-building-Its-like-a-stack-of-boxes-says-Damon-Knight-From-base-to-apex"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:39:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:39:30","slug":"story-building-its-like-a-stack-of-boxes-says-damon-knight-from-base-to-apex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/14\/story-building-its-like-a-stack-of-boxes-says-damon-knight-from-base-to-apex\/","title":{"rendered":"Story building: It&#8217;s like a stack of boxes, says Damon Knight. From base to apex:"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Story building: It&#8217;s like a stack of boxes, says Damon Knight. From base to apex:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Impetus<\/strong>: Why do you want to write this story? What inside you is trying to get out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong> &#8211; characters, background, setting, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Form<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Surface<\/strong> &#8211; what the reader sees, the sentences and words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your story isn&#8217;t working, find the earliest level where it fails, and fix that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#shortfiction<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Story building: It&#8217;s like a stack of boxes, says Damon Knight. From base to apex:<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/14\/story-building-its-like-a-stack-of-boxes-says-damon-knight-from-base-to-apex\/\">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\/2866"}],"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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}