{"id":624,"date":"2012-10-09T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=624"},"modified":"2012-10-09T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:21:18","slug":"the-careful-planning-of-plot-arcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"The Careful Planning of Plot Arcs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about plots and plotting lately (plotting as in developing plots to stories, not plotting as in &#8220;mbwahahaha&#8221;, I save that for <a title=\"Cyril IV: The Mousening\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=617\">mice<\/a>), and I had a bit of an epiphany.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t tend to so much come up with plots as I do set up a bunch of scenes like I&#8217;m playing games of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truck_Dismount\">truck dismount<\/a>.\u00a0 That is to say, I take a few characters, array them about the place, put in a few obstacles that will make something horrible happen, and sit back and watch what happens.\u00a0 I like to call this &#8220;character-driven&#8221;, but perhaps it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to look at the big picture just a bit more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6JNmwoOgtzA?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about plots and plotting lately (plotting as in developing plots to stories, not plotting as in &#8220;mbwahahaha&#8221;, I save that for mice), and I had a bit of an epiphany.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t tend to so much come up with plots as I do set up a bunch of scenes like I&#8217;m playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}