{"id":30,"date":"2021-06-06T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/?p=30"},"modified":"2021-06-06T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:26:27","slug":"start-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/2021\/06\/06\/start-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/06\/ChineseFortune.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[30]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/sisaacs\/files\/2021\/06\/ChineseFortune-300x67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/06\/ChineseFortune-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/06\/ChineseFortune.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I got this in a fortune cookie at Samy&#8217;s Noodles in the East Village. It&#8217;s taped to my corkboard to remind me.<\/p>\n<p>We do a lot of prep in class: character, theme, outlining. I&#8217;m really big on creating a structure that plants, develops, and leads to that satisfying end &#8220;beyond which the audience cannot imagine another.&#8221;\u00a0 (Robert McKee).<\/p>\n<p>But as my colleague, James Dutcher, is fond of saying, &#8220;An outline is not a suicide pact.&#8221; You must plan and think. And then you just gotta start writing. The answer will come to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in a fortune cookie at Samy&#8217;s Noodles in the East Village. It&#8217;s taped to my corkboard to remind me. We do a lot of prep in class: character, theme, outlining. I&#8217;m really big on creating a structure<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/2021\/06\/06\/start-writing\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/sisaacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}