{"id":161,"date":"2014-02-21T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-03-01T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:53:12","slug":"prompts-for-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/prompts-for-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"PROMPTS FOR SETTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I. Begin a story that is set in an unusual time and place, so that you must absolutely let your reader know that, hey, this isn\u2019t <i>here and now<\/i>, but <i>there and then<\/i>. Can you do this without the obvious <i>This is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the Civil War?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>II. Begin a story whose setting is a \u2018character\u2019 in the narrative, in the way the sea is a character in Herman Melville\u2019s <i>Moby Dick, <\/i>or<i> <\/i>the mental hospital is a character in Ken Kesey\u2019s <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest, <\/i>or the prison is a character in Stephen King\u2019s <i>Shawshank Redemption<\/i>, or Hogwarts\u2019s is a character in J.K. Rowland\u2019s <i>Harry Potter.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. Begin a story that is set in an unusual time and place, so that you must absolutely let your reader know that, hey, this isn\u2019t here and now, but there and then. Can you do this without the obvious This is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the Civil War? II. Begin a story whose setting is a \u2018character\u2019 in the narrative, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/prompts-for-setting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  PROMPTS FOR SETTING<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revision.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}