{"id":45888,"date":"2019-03-27T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45888"},"modified":"2019-03-30T22:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T02:02:27","slug":"10-ways-to-start-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/10-ways-to-start-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Start Your Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the <em>Write Practice<\/em> blog offers advice for beginners on beginnings. &#8220;The first page sells the book; the last page sells the next book,&#8221; says writer Joslyn Chase.<\/p>\n<p>Among her top 10 tips: Introducing a mystery or some tension, providing a strong statement on your theme, and showing how your story world is changing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritepractice.com\/start-story\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/barbarabonanno-789784\/\">Photo credit:\u00a0Barbara Bonanno via Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the Write Practice blog offers advice for beginners on beginnings. &#8220;The first page sells the book; the last page sells the next book,&#8221; says writer Joslyn Chase. Among her top 10 tips: Introducing a mystery or some tension, providing a strong statement on your theme, and showing how your story world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,468],"tags":[491],"class_list":["post-45888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-fiction-101","tag-beginnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888","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=45888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46521,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45888\/revisions\/46521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}