{"id":895,"date":"2015-06-09T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2015-05-11T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:48:41","slug":"character-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/06\/09\/character-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Traits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a good character? Here&#8217;s a starting list. Please send me your ideas so I can grow the list and re-share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 flawed with strengths and weaknesses, scars and oddities in their lives<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 well-developed personality<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 distinctive &#8216;voice&#8217; (you often know which character is speaking without the &#8216;said&#8217; tag)<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 approachable yet filled with secrets<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 has a story worth our time learning about as we read<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 share both their inner and outer conflicts<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 grow and change over the course of the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a good character? Here&#8217;s a starting list. Please send me your ideas so I can grow the list and re-share it with you. *\u00a0 flawed with strengths and weaknesses, scars and oddities in their lives *\u00a0 well-developed personality *\u00a0 distinctive &#8216;voice&#8217; (you often know which character is speaking without the &#8216;said&#8217; tag) *\u00a0 approachable yet filled with secrets *\u00a0 has a story worth our time learning about as we read *\u00a0 share both their inner and outer conflicts *\u00a0 grow and change over the course of the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,4,8],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-development","category-details-in-writing","category-writer-reminders","tag-character-traits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}