{"id":4839,"date":"2020-11-30T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:00:21","slug":"heres-how-to-start-your-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/characters\/heres-how-to-start-your-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how to start your short story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center; border-bottom: 5px double red; border-top: 5px double red;\">How to start your short story? Like This:<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 7em; color: blue; text-shadow: -1px 0 red, 0 1px red, 1px 0 red, 0 -1px red, 10px 10px 10px grey; text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-style: italic;\">With Action<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What&#8217;s action?<\/span> Anything that sets the story in motion.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Make your opening sentence compelling.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Make the reader want to read on; have to read on. Do that and you&#8217;re goose will lay golden eggs; don&#8217;t and your goose is cooked.<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Read more of my work at <a style=\"text-decoration: none; padding-top: 10px;\" href=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne<span style=\"color: red; font-size: 150%;\">A<\/span>English.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffdf; width: 100%; border-radius: 10px; padding: 20px; border: 5px double blue;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/wordpress-hacks-for-your-content-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Want to know how to make WordPress do what you want it to? Here&#8217;s Eight WordPress Hacks you&#8217;ll love.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to start your short story? Like This: With Action What&#8217;s action? Anything that sets the story in motion. Make your opening sentence compelling. Make the reader want to read on; have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,79,80,85,102,103,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters","category-creating-characters","category-screenwriting","category-short-story","category-social-networking","category-writers-tools","category-writers-group","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}