{"id":107,"date":"2012-07-13T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-07-06T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:15:19","slug":"anika-dalmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Character in -50: Anika Dalmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I used to be the perfect little girl; always listened, never talked, loved Mommy and Daddy with everything I had. But then, Mommy was taken and Daddy turned away. I was left alone and afraid and that&#8217;s when darkness won me over. Daddy will love me again, or else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another -50 words introduction to an MC. This story&#8217;s been giving me it&#8217;s own issues. The main one being; what am I actually going to do with it?! I&#8217;ve never felt more lost, but still guided, in my writing. I know what&#8217;s supposed to happen and most of what happens in between, and yet I&#8217;m going nowhere. Last time I looked the MC was taking a joyride! Perhaps with this story, what I really need is a short-term focus.\u00c2\u00a0The MC needs to start listening to the plot and I need to finish figuring out the details of the plot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next week&#8217;s Wednesday post: <strong>On the First Bridge We Crossed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be the perfect little girl; always listened, never talked, loved Mommy and Daddy with everything I had. But then, Mommy was taken and Daddy turned away. I was left alone and afraid and that&#8217;s when darkness won me over. Daddy will love me again, or else. Here&#8217;s another -50 words introduction to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,50,8,48,17,15],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-in-general","tag-50-words","tag-character","tag-character-development","tag-stories","tag-story-development-2","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}