{"id":50,"date":"2019-02-22T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:18:42","slug":"so-strange-this-writing-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/so-strange-this-writing-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"So Strange this Writing Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ok, had to share this: The weird world of fiction writing:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was getting close to the last few scenes for the short story I am writing for an anthology project, when I started noticing that I had not really defined one of my characters personality well enough. It was like I couldn&#8217;t make him talk, he was a stick figure, not a real person. He was a dead puppet. I had to stop writing and figure out who he was all over again before I could go on. After I defined him a bit more, I found out that he wasn&#8217;t who I thought he was! That was weird, so strange. He just needed life breathed into him. Very odd this writing thing. I like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, had to share this: The weird world of fiction writing: I was getting close to the last few scenes for the short story I am writing for an anthology project, when I started noticing that I had not really defined one of my characters personality well enough. It was like I couldn&#8217;t make him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/so-strange-this-writing-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Strange this Writing Thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-fi","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}