{"id":23098,"date":"2014-04-21T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=23098"},"modified":"2014-04-21T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:06:10","slug":"lay-a-paragraph-on-the-altar-of-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/04\/21\/lay-a-paragraph-on-the-altar-of-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay A Paragraph On The Altar Of Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s post about critiquing opening lines generated a fascinating — and holy crap, robust — fusillade of comments back and forth, which is exciting to see.<\/p>\n

So, let’s do it again.<\/p>\n

Or, something similar, at least.<\/p>\n

What I want you to to do is to grab a paragraph — hopefully a shorter one, but that’s your call — and offer up that paragraph for critique. Drop it into the comments, and let folks talk about what would make it stronger — in terms of description, metaphor, clarity of language, characterization, what-have-you and blah blah blah.<\/p>\n

You can grab something from your current WIP.<\/p>\n

Or, if so inclined, write something new.<\/p>\n

One paragraph only<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you’re offering up a paragraph for critique, it’s only fair you offer commentary to someone else.<\/p>\n

Be respectful of others. Say good things as well as bad.<\/p>\n

Let’s do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s post about critiquing opening lines generated a fascinating — and holy crap, robust — fusillade of comments back and forth, which is exciting to see. So, let’s do it again. Or, something similar, at least. What I want you to to do is to grab a paragraph — hopefully a shorter one, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-60y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23102,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions\/23102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}