{"id":45618,"date":"2019-03-14T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45618"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:05:55","slug":"crafting-rich-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/crafting-rich-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Rich Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with the <em>DIY MFA<\/em> blog, author Heather Graham talks about creating settings that feel authentic. During the podcast, Graham offers advice on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building your world\u2019s lore and mythology<\/li>\n<li>Using your setting to create impending peril and suspense<\/li>\n<li>Making your readers care about the supporting cast<\/li>\n<li>Crafting your villain\u2019s motivations so they ring true<\/li>\n<li>Using alternating point of view characters to give a broader view of your story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diymfa.com\/podcast\/episode-243-heather-graham\">Listen to the podcast here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/old-books-book-old-library-436498\/\">Image<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/jarmoluk-143740\/\">jarmoluk<\/a> on Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with the DIY MFA blog, author Heather Graham talks about creating settings that feel authentic. During the podcast, Graham offers advice on: Building your world\u2019s lore and mythology Using your setting to create impending peril and suspense Making your readers care about the supporting cast Crafting your villain\u2019s motivations so they ring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[453,452,518,463],"class_list":["post-45618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-characters","tag-craft","tag-pov","tag-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45618","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=45618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45637,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45618\/revisions\/45637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}