{"id":2900,"date":"2015-05-08T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/From-Jeff-Vandermeers-Wonderbook"},"modified":"2015-05-08T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:10:56","slug":"from-jeff-vandermeers-wonderbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/05\/08\/from-jeff-vandermeers-wonderbook\/","title":{"rendered":"From Jeff Vandermeer&#8217;s Wonderbook:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Jeff Vandermeer&#8217;s <em>Wonderbook<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <strong>scene<\/strong> dramatizes at least one character in the moment &#8211; showing, not telling, or at least conveying to the reader the <em>sense<\/em> of being shown. The ratio of dialog and actions unfolding in the present to exposition, flashback, description and summary is actually very flexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <strong>half scene<\/strong> is a mini scene consisting of a few lines of dialog and description, embedded into summary or a different scene to provide more depth and drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong> or exposition describes action or thought without dramatizing it &#8211; tells rather than shows. You can get away with a surprising amount of this if you make it interesting enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#wonderbook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/wonderbooknow.com<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        From Jeff Vandermeer&#8217;s Wonderbook:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94,89],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan","tag-wonderbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}