{"id":27723,"date":"2015-09-14T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27723"},"modified":"2015-09-14T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T10:48:03","slug":"post-the-opening-line-to-your-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/09\/14\/post-the-opening-line-to-your-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Post The Opening Line To Your Work-In-Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a critique challenge:<\/p>\n<p>Post the opening line to your WIP.<\/p>\n<p>Drop it into the comments below. Note that by doing so, you open yourself up to some criticism &#8212; but you are also free to discuss other opening lines, too. (And it&#8217;s also worth noting that an opening line is in\u00a0<em>no<\/em> way the end-all, be-all of a story. While we often like to have perfect opening lines, sometimes it&#8217;s more about a perfect opening paragraph or an elegant first page.)<\/p>\n<p>Either way, if you want to play, go to the comments, leave behind your opening line for some constructive criticism. (And those offering criticism &#8212; please keep it constructive, thank you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a critique challenge: Post the opening line to your WIP. Drop it into the comments below. Note that by doing so, you open yourself up to some criticism &#8212; but you are also free to discuss other opening lines, too. (And it&#8217;s also worth noting that an opening line is in\u00a0no way the end-all, [&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-27723","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-7d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723","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=27723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27724,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions\/27724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}