{"id":169,"date":"2010-05-05T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-05-05T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:19:19","slug":"write-at-sea-cruise-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/write-at-sea-cruise-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Write at Sea Cruise- Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to day two of the Write at Sea workshop on board Carnival Cruises Fun Ship Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>After a night of revelry followed by endless tossing and turning as I ruminated on the new beginning of my story, I arrive at the Break into Fiction workshop ready for the next step- What happens after the first twist point.<\/p>\n<p>My new start is rife with conflict. My subplot and secondary plot that I was flirting with weeks ago will fold in beautifully. But now I\u2019m stuck on the details, or rather the tests. I need obstacles, things for my couple to do, and more importantly, create events that will lead them up to the next twist point.<\/p>\n<p>Dianna\u2019s favorite suggestions is \u201ckill somebody.\u201d Great, but I can\u2019t kill off<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-170\" title=\"2010 132\" src=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010-132-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Encenada\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encenada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>everybody. So I\u2019m staring at the wall again. The ticking time bomb that is my brain has been activated<\/p>\n<p>Think, think, think, think, think- BOOM!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve fractured off again.<\/p>\n<p>This is when a second person comes in really handy. As I start to rattle off where I\u2019ve got the story going, Mary is plucking the threads out of my jumbled sentences and narrowing my focus. Now the secondary storyline has more importance than earlier. Fantastic! Thank you subconscious. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my subconscious?<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day I am mentally drained, but I now have a strong, fully plotted story that is fit for my shape shifter and his mate. The process was painful, but you know the saying, \u201cIf it was easy, everyone could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My next step now? Take the templates and go through the first story in the series. Do I see more internal bloodshed and frustrated tears? Yes. So why do it?<\/p>\n<p>Because I don\u2019t want to be a writer. I want to be a published author. And that requires more that just putting words on paper.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two of the Write @ Sea cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,21],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-workshops","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39eCR-2J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}