{"id":26983,"date":"2015-06-08T07:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26983"},"modified":"2015-06-08T07:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:10:58","slug":"critique-session-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/06\/08\/critique-session-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique Session: Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Monday critique session. Are they helpful? I hope they are.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how this works:<\/p>\n<p>Today? We&#8217;re gonna hash out\u00a0<em>characters<\/em>. Do you have a character in your WIP (work in progress) that&#8217;s just not working? Or a character that you love but others are having problems connecting to? Whatever the reason, here&#8217;s a good place to dissect some characters.<\/p>\n<p>Way this works is: in the comment section, give us ~100 words (keep it tidy) about a character you want critiqued. Tell us about that character &#8212; wants, fears, the intended arc for that character, etc. &#8212; and then some folks can critique that character or ask some questions.<\/p>\n<p>Then the dissection can begin.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, the rule always applies:<\/p>\n<p>If you put your character out there to be dissected &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>You must also dissect someone else&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p>Quid pro quo and all that.<\/p>\n<p>Be constructive instead of destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be jerks.<\/p>\n<p>Be awesome instead.<\/p>\n<p>Get to critiquing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Monday critique session. Are they helpful? I hope they are. Here&#8217;s how this works: Today? We&#8217;re gonna hash out\u00a0characters. Do you have a character in your WIP (work in progress) that&#8217;s just not working? Or a character that you love but others are having problems connecting to? Whatever the reason, here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/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-26983","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-71d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983","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=26983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26985,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions\/26985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}