{"id":660,"date":"2019-04-05T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2019-04-05T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T03:09:15","slug":"narrative-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/narrative-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A long and thoughtful piece by Maggie Stiefvater on narrative structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c&#8230; as a professional storyteller, it\u2019s my job to know what is invisible (and thus costs the reader nothing) versus what is now outside the norm (and thus costs the reader something to process). I don\u2019t mind asking the reader to work for things that are important to me, but I need to know when I\u2019m doing it in order to make sure I can keep their overall load light enough that they don\u2019t lose emotional investment and trade my novel for Netflix. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com\/post\/183976048071\/epics-break-up-songs-that-old-chestnut-just\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Epics, Break-Up Songs, &amp; That Old Chestnut, \u2018Just Because You Don\u2019t Like It Doesn\u2019t Make It Bad\u2019<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long and thoughtful piece by Maggie Stiefvater on narrative structure. \u201c&#8230; as a professional storyteller, it\u2019s my job to know what is invisible (and thus costs the reader nothing) versus what is now outside the norm (and thus costs the reader something to process). I don\u2019t mind asking the reader to work for things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/narrative-structure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Narrative Structure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}