{"id":40,"date":"2006-02-27T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/layering\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T10:19:00","slug":"layering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/layering\/","title":{"rendered":"Layering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion on rasfc that started with describing characters, Patricia C. Wrede has posted two examples of layering &#8212; writing something with only one component, like dialogue, and then adding everything else, like description, action, internal monologue, as separate steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.sf.composition\/msg\/8f268f8d50367888\">One starts with dialogue<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.sf.composition\/msg\/139a3330ae953e15\">the other starts with setting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue one is how I often write anyway, especially when I&#8217;m stuck, which I was earlier this evening. Trying to figure out how to say everything at once can be too hard, and breaking it down to think about only one aspect at a time can be the only way for me to make forward progress.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I sometimes end up with nothing but dialogue if I know exactly what happens in a scene and I&#8217;m writing really quickly. I&#8217;m getting better at making myself slow down.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thread is interesting, but long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion on rasfc that started with describing characters, Patricia C. Wrede has posted two examples of layering &#8212; writing something with only one component, like dialogue, and then adding everything else, like description, action, internal monologue, as separate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/layering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}