{"id":2930,"date":"2015-03-28T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/For-maximum-effectiveness-you-should-start-your-story-at-the-time-of-the-change-that-threatens-your-major"},"modified":"2015-03-28T06:23:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T06:23:28","slug":"for-maximum-effectiveness-you-should-start-your-story-at-the-time-of-the-change-that-threatens-your-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/03\/28\/for-maximum-effectiveness-you-should-start-your-story-at-the-time-of-the-change-that-threatens-your-major\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>&#8220;For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major character&#8217;s self-concept.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;at the outset of your story&#8230; show your character coming up with a vital <em>intention<\/em> or <em>story goal<\/em>, designed to &#8220;fix things&#8221; for him in terms of his sensation of being out of equilibrium with his environment. Every good fiction character is thus goal-motivated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;you end the novel&#8230; by <em>answering the story question you posed at the outset<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Plan to make the start and end as close together in time as you can, and still have room for a minimum of 50,000 words of dramatic development.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Jack M. Bickham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#sceneandstructure<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/03\/28\/for-maximum-effectiveness-you-should-start-your-story-at-the-time-of-the-change-that-threatens-your-major\/\">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":[94,90],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}