{"id":1596,"date":"2014-02-07T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2014-02-07T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:31:41","slug":"yes-but-what-are-they-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Yes, But What Are They Feeling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m in full deep dive mode on Draft Three of the new book. As a matter of fact I recently upgraded my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=121\"><strong>writing bathysphere<\/strong><\/a> to one of <strong>these<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1597\" alt=\"TheIsolator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheIsolator.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheIsolator.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheIsolator-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The current challenge, as often before with stories of mine at this stage, is <strong>characterisation<\/strong>. You&#8217;ve heard of authors who know their characters inside out before they start to write, or claim that their creations come to life and drive the story themselves? I&#8217;m not one of those. My tendency with early drafts is to focus on plot, world-building, action, structure &#8211; <strong>stuff<\/strong>. But of course the <strong>people <\/strong>in stories need attention too. Hence the question above, as posed (often) by my editor Ruth K. during the redrafting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\"><strong>Crawlers<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>resounding in my brain ever since<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That gas tank? Mine&#8217;s full of coffee. And sometimes Scotch. ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in full deep dive mode on Draft Three of the new book. As a matter of fact I recently upgraded my writing bathysphere to one of these: The current challenge, as often before with stories of mine at this stage, is characterisation. You&#8217;ve heard of authors who know their characters inside out before they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}