{"id":3451,"date":"2016-01-15T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2016-01-15T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:32:02","slug":"try-looking-at-it-from-my-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/try-looking-at-it-from-my-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Looking At It From My Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"r-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>As we steam along on story development for Son of Science Novel, occasionally our brainstorming sputters a bit. One reliable way to get the juices flowing again is to pick one of the secondary characters or villains and take a brief stroll in those shoes. It always shows us gaps that would otherwise be hidden, giving us fodder for discussion and interesting problems to solve.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to make everyone in your story world a full citizen. The allies and enemies are not merely there as foils for the protagonist. They don&#8217;t vanish the moment the action moves away from their vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Try telling the tale in the villain&#8217;s voice. It will help make sure the bad guys&#8217; actions are coherent and give your heroes worthier adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we steam along on story development for Son of Science Novel, occasionally our brainstorming sputters a bit. One reliable way to get the juices flowing again is to pick one of the secondary characters or villains and take a brief stroll in those shoes. It always shows us gaps that would otherwise be hidden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}