{"id":42376,"date":"2014-06-06T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/writing-with-characters.html"},"modified":"2014-06-06T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T01:22:38","slug":"writing-with-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/writing-with-characters.html","title":{"rendered":"Writing with Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"
A good essay by +<\/span>DeAnna Knippling<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on characters from the outside and how they differ from characters on the inside. And, darn it, De's made me think of how that applies to my<\/i> writing projects as well, and what I want<\/del> need to do about it.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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\n Lately I’ve been working on endings and realized that I’ve been using my talents against myself: I get to the climactic battle scenes, and I end up so excited to find out how everything wraps up that I rush through them and leave out the details that make resolving a battle so satisfying.\n <\/p>\n

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A good essay by +DeAnna Knippling\u00a0on characters from the outside and how they differ from characters on the inside. And, darn it, De's made me think of how that applies to my writing projects as well, and what I want need to do about it.\ufeff More on Character. | Wonderland Press Lately I’ve been working … Continue reading “Writing with Characters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,24],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2764,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/24\/the_names_the_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":42376,"position":0},"title":"The name’s the thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Sep-02 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Visit the Medieval Names Archive. 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