{"id":2929,"date":"2015-03-28T06:42:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Fiction-must-make-more-sense-than-real-life-if-general-readers-are-to-find-it-credible"},"modified":"2015-03-28T06:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T06:42:59","slug":"fiction-must-make-more-sense-than-real-life-if-general-readers-are-to-find-it-credible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/03\/28\/fiction-must-make-more-sense-than-real-life-if-general-readers-are-to-find-it-credible\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[F]iction must make more sense than real life if general readers are to find it credible.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;[F]iction must make more sense than real life if general readers are to find it credible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can make almost anything happen in your story if every cause has an effect and vice versa. This implies a rational universe, which is comforting to the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Stimulus and response are cause and effect made more specific and immediate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stimulus and response are both external &#8211; we could see them if the story was taking place on a stage. They always occur in pairs, and usually without delay, and with a clear logical connection (which may involve internal processes, in which case, show them to the reader). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They occur in the order stimulus-(internalisation)-response, unless you deliberately re-order them to create an effect of momentary confusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Jack M. Bickham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#sceneandstructure<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;[F]iction must make more sense than real life if general readers are to find it credible.&#8221;<\/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":[94,90],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan","tag-sceneandstructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","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=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}