{"id":4833,"date":"2020-11-16T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:00:21","slug":"when-the-answer-is-not-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/book\/when-the-answer-is-not-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"When the answer is not yes or no."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">When the Answer is Not Yes or No<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"border-radius: 3px; padding: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: -2px; float: left; color: red; font-size: 75px; line-height: 70px; padding-right: 8px; padding-left: 3px; font-family: Georgia; text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey; border: 5px solid red;\">A<\/span>s writers we may be thinking that every problem; every question; has a yes or<br \/>\nsolution. Wrong! That\u2019s just not so. There is the third solution: when the answer is<br \/>\nnot yes or no. Black or white. Go or stay. There is always another way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Let\u2019s say you have two people in a story and one wants Chinese for dinner and the<br \/>\nwants Italian. The go back and forth and there is just no solution. What to do? Let each<br \/>\nhave what they want. This tells the reader both characters are strong willed and don\u2019t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tile--img__img js-lazyload alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.iRpLi2CuCafR0rBjf9sFNgHaFi%26pid%3DApi&amp;f=1\" alt=\"In the end a narrow loss for HST in B.C. referendum ...\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" data-src=\"\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.iRpLi2CuCafR0rBjf9sFNgHaFi%26pid%3DApi&amp;f=1\" \/><br \/>\neasily give in to pressure from the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Will this always work? No, of course not, but it\u2019s a good way to get unpredictable<br \/>\nthings into your story that the reader has not likely seen before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Like this sort of thing? Read my published and unpublished work at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\">https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Answer is Not Yes or No As writers we may be thinking that every problem; every question; has a yes or solution. Wrong! That\u2019s just not so. There is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,36,71,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-characters","category-fiction","category-publishing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}