{"id":13376,"date":"2024-08-30T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=13376"},"modified":"2024-08-30T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T01:56:25","slug":"more-than-just-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/more-than-just-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"More than &#8220;Just the facts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"434\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bazaar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13260\" style=\"width:177px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bazaar.png 434w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bazaar-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Balancing Facts With Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFact-packed prose might feed the mind, but stories stir the soul. This is where structuring your narrative to build interest comes into play. The goal is to weave your facts into a story arc that escalates the wonder, making each page a gateway to the next surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By balancing detailed factual content with engaging narrative structures and vivid scene-setting, you transform your nonfiction into a compelling story. This isn\u2019t just information, it\u2019s an experience, a journey through the phenomenal world of your subject that educates and enchants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2014 \u201cFrom Ordinary to Extraordinary,\u201d Ryan G. Van Cleave, Writer\u2019s Digest Sept\/Oct 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing Facts With Narrative \u201cFact-packed prose might feed the mind, but stories stir the soul. This is where structuring your narrative to build interest comes into play. The goal is to weave your facts into a story arc that escalates the wonder, making each page a gateway to the next surprise. By balancing detailed factual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-13376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3tK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13377,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions\/13377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}