{"id":44790,"date":"2019-03-28T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=44790"},"modified":"2019-03-30T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T02:04:54","slug":"what-keeps-your-characters-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/what-keeps-your-characters-up-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"What Keeps Your Characters up at Night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"entry-author-name\">If your stuck on a plot point or looking to up the dramatic tension in your manuscript,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"entry-author-name\">Jeanne Kisacky suggests exploring the fears and worries that would keep your characters up at night. &#8220;What current moment would be the one that woke them up and occupied their thoughts? What kind of regrets and frustrations would tinge that current moment?&#8221; she asks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writerunboxed.com\/2019\/03\/01\/what-keeps-your-characters-up-at-night\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WriterUnboxed+%28Writer+Unboxed%29\">Read the full post at <em>Writer Unboxed<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/sjDnVZHGasU?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Annie Spratt<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/insomnia?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your stuck on a plot point or looking to up the dramatic tension in your manuscript,\u00a0Jeanne Kisacky suggests exploring the fears and worries that would keep your characters up at night. &#8220;What current moment would be the one that woke them up and occupied their thoughts? What kind of regrets and frustrations would tinge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[453,493,482],"class_list":["post-44790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-characters","tag-dramatic-tension","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46109,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790\/revisions\/46109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}