{"id":6031,"date":"2014-11-27T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2014-11-27T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T02:50:52","slug":"the-lizards-of-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6031","title":{"rendered":"The Lizards of Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/3019333\/8-tips-for-creating-great-stories-from-george-rr-martin-junot-diaz-and-more-of-the-worlds-to#1\">Author Jeff Vandermeer<\/a>, a three-time Fantasy World Award-winning novelist who co-directs the Shared Worlds teen writing camp, says, &#8220;The way we&#8217;re taught to analyze fiction is to break down and do a kind of autopsy. But I think writers need to be more like naturalists or zoologists when they study story because then you&#8217;re looking at how all the elements fit together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See infographics illustrating this idea and more from <i>Wonderbook: The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Jeff Vandermeer, a three-time Fantasy World Award-winning novelist who co-directs the Shared Worlds teen writing camp, says, &#8220;The way we&#8217;re taught to analyze fiction is to break down and do a kind of autopsy. But I think writers need to be more like naturalists or zoologists when they study story because then you&#8217;re looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lizards of Storytelling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}