{"id":455,"date":"2007-10-30T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T05:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=455"},"modified":"2007-10-30T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T05:12:42","slug":"storyspace-learning-to-think-in-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/10\/storyspace-learning-to-think-in-links\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Learning to Think in Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">V<\/span>ery interesting things are happening, I can see them.&nbsp; it&#8217;s a matter now of learning how to put into words what change in thinking comes along, and what to write down when the mind wanders.&nbsp; On the one hand I can see how a story builds itself by throwing out possibilities and making the characters own up (if past) or face up (if future) to the challenges.&nbsp; On the other, I see the need to follow a character&#8217;s traits and tendencies so that he will act in character, even when he doesn&#8217;t (what drove him beyond? to take chances? to risk it?).<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m a wanderer, true, but I&#8217;m also the conflicted by my near-anal tendency to focus.&nbsp; Being a Scorpio and not believing in astrology yet fitting the hot\/cold temperament near perfectly, I believe that what needs to be done here is to go ahead and scatter, and focus on it.&nbsp; Or, the opposite can apply: focus on scattering.<\/p>\n<p>Neat, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">V<\/span>ery interesting things are happening, I can see them.&nbsp; it&#8217;s a matter now of learning how to put into words what change in thinking comes along, and what to write down when the mind wanders.&nbsp; On the one hand I can see how a story builds itself by throwing out possibilities and making the characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}