{"id":13977,"date":"2016-03-02T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T04:27:46","slug":"wednesday-some-late-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13977","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Some Late Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the videos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterclass.com\/classes\/james-patterson-teaches-writing\" target=\"_blank\">James Patterson&#8217;s Masterclass<\/a>. You might have seen the ads for it whizzing around everywhere you look, like Facebook and the like. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve read anything by him but I was willing to listen to his ideas and thoughts. Each class has a video and a PDF with things to do and there&#8217;s a course guide with more information. <\/p>\n<p>I believe you can always learn something from someone and the price was pretty low in the range of courses online and otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>So far so good. I&#8217;m giving it a thumbs up! Although I&#8217;d say I fall heavily into the &#8220;pantser&#8221; school of writing his description of how he outlines and why made sense to me. Up til now I just couldn&#8217;t see spending a lot of time doing that. Sometimes I do sketch out a short list of planned scenes and actions if I&#8217;m having a problem getting to the next thing. Just bullet points. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll try it in the future but at least I understand a way to do it. I didn&#8217;t get it before. I also got some valuable ideas to think about for characters. <\/p>\n<p>So, onward and upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the videos from James Patterson&#8217;s Masterclass. You might have seen the ads for it whizzing around everywhere you look, like Facebook and the like. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve read anything by him but I was willing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,33,159],"tags":[275,705,530],"class_list":["post-13977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-nanowrimo","category-what-im-listening-to-2","tag-amwriting","tag-masterclass","tag-nanowrimo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3Dr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13978,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/13978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}