{"id":46045,"date":"2019-03-25T10:35:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=46045"},"modified":"2019-03-23T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:39:09","slug":"checking-the-engine-of-your-narrative-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/checking-the-engine-of-your-narrative-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking the Engine of Your Narrative Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janice Hardy suggests a simple test to check whether your narrative drive has enough forward momentum to carry your novel and create a sense of urgency in your reader. It starts with knowing exactly what your protagonist wants, if the goal is worth having, and if there are big stakes in play if your narrator doesn&#8217;t reach their objective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.janicehardy.com\/2009\/09\/re-write-wednesday-baby-you-can-drive.html\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@jeshoots-com-147458?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">JESHOOTS.com<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/auto-automobile-automotive-blur-451590\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janice Hardy suggests a simple test to check whether your narrative drive has enough forward momentum to carry your novel and create a sense of urgency in your reader. It starts with knowing exactly what your protagonist wants, if the goal is worth having, and if there are big stakes in play if your narrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[452,493,454,487],"class_list":["post-46045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-craft","tag-dramatic-tension","tag-plot","tag-story-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045","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=46045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46096,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045\/revisions\/46096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}