{"id":1430,"date":"2012-04-20T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:00:04","slug":"workshop-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Workshop: Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching another Savvy Authors Workshop starting next week&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.savvyauthors.com\/vb\/showevent.php?eventid=1054\">Beginnings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about what it sounds like it&#8217;s about&#8230;beginning a novel. We&#8217;ll talk about the all-important hook, and how to fill the reader in on background info without dumping it. It doesn&#8217;t matter what genre you write, most of the tricks and tools remain the same. <\/p>\n<p>I will be giving personal feedback and attention, as usual. You&#8217;ll get detailed critique on the first chapter or so of your novel by the time all is done. The personal feedback portion is essential, because as I Like to stress&#8230;there are no rules, only guidelines. Every story is unique.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll join me! I always have a lot of fun in these workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching another Savvy Authors Workshop starting next week&#8230;Beginnings. It&#8217;s about what it sounds like it&#8217;s about&#8230;beginning a novel. We&#8217;ll talk about the all-important hook, and how to fill the reader in on background info without dumping it. It doesn&#8217;t matter what genre you write, most of the tricks and tools remain the same. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}