{"id":5514,"date":"2016-05-20T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:07:47","slug":"know-your-characters-intimately-prompt-255","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/know-your-characters-intimately-prompt-255\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your characters intimately.   Prompt #255"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/renoir-dancing-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5515 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/renoir-dancing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"renoir-dancing-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>How to flesh out fictional characters . . . Give them depth . . . Get to know them intimately.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say your fictional character has just received devastating news such as a job loss, death of a family member or close friend.<\/p>\n<p>How does he react?<\/p>\n<p>What are her immediate thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>What actions does he take next?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine your fictional character had an epiphany about a betrayal, a loss, an old grievance. . . something new has been revealed. What does he or she do?<\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes to write about the purpose this character serves in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Ready?\u00a0 Just write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to flesh out fictional characters . . . Give them depth . . . Get to know them intimately. Let&#8217;s say your fictional character has just received devastating news such as a job loss, death of a family member or close friend. How does he react? What are her immediate thoughts? What actions does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[6,105,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1qW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","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=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}