{"id":1420,"date":"2011-08-03T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emlynley.livejournal.com\/101030.html"},"modified":"2011-08-03T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:09:08","slug":"those-precious-aha-moments-and-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/those-precious-aha-moments-and-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Precious "Aha!" Moments… and Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I just had one of them. You know what I'm talking about. When something clicks and gives you either tons of inspiration or solves a problem that's kept you up at night.<\/p>\n

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As a writer these are among the best things ever, and I just came across one.<\/div>\n
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Secrets.<\/div>\n
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I was visiting a few writing blogs and as usual, I was just clicking around and not focusing enough, when I spotted something really useful. Using character secrets to shape the action. I was having some trouble with one of the WIPs about what the frack should happen next, and this gave me a really useful framework to structure some of the scenes. <\/div>\n
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The advice was plotting out how to reveal the secret in layers and making each new revelation a turning point in the story. Now I still have to work out on paper whether this is going to solve my particular problem, but it sure gave me inspiration and a few ideas to work with. But I think it's going to make a world of difference to the mushy part of the story I've been trying to avoid for the past couple of days!<\/div>\n
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I just had one of them. You know what I'm talking about. When something clicks and gives you either tons of inspiration or solves a problem that's kept you up at night.   As a writer these are among the best things ever, and I just came across one.   Secrets.   I was visiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[238,236,17,237],"tags":[930],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-stuff","category-plotting","category-writing","category-writing-tips","tag-plotting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-mU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}