{"id":45386,"date":"2019-03-11T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45386"},"modified":"2019-03-15T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:37:36","slug":"fiction-101-how-to-study-fiction-part-23-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/fiction-101-how-to-study-fiction-part-23-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets in Poe&#8217;s Paragraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest in a series on how to study fiction, <em>Big Pulp<\/em> fave DeAnna Knippling offers a master class on paragraphs &#8211; how long they should be and what a good paragraph should entail. That sounds like Fiction 101, but Knippling shows there&#8217;s more to the content of a paragraph than meets the eye.\u00a0Using a\u00a0monumental 1.5 page paragraph from Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s <em>The Fall of the House of Usher,<\/em> Knippling shows how longer paragraphs can misdirect the reader&#8217;s attention, adding a powerful weapon to the writer&#8217;s arsenal for creating surprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderlandpress.com\/?p=9289\">Read the full post at Wonderland Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/portrait-edgar-allan-poe-1848-62996\/\">Image<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/WikiImages-1897\/\">WikiImages<\/a>\u00a0on Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest in a series on how to study fiction, Big Pulp fave DeAnna Knippling offers a master class on paragraphs &#8211; how long they should be and what a good paragraph should entail. That sounds like Fiction 101, but Knippling shows there&#8217;s more to the content of a paragraph than meets the eye.\u00a0Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,470],"tags":[452,534,546],"class_list":["post-45386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-pro-tips","tag-craft","tag-sentences-and-paragraphs","tag-use-of-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45386","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=45386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45509,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45386\/revisions\/45509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}