{"id":924,"date":"2016-02-19T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:01","slug":"in-the-span-of-a-rats-whisker-twitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/author-novelist\/in-the-span-of-a-rats-whisker-twitch\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Span of a Rat&#8217;s Whisker Twitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can dream up plots and stories in the span of a rat&#8217;s whisker twitch. I can map that story out in a few hours. Writing up the draft, if I&#8217;m selfish and tell the world to take a hike, takes a few weeks. Then comes the rewrite, which can take another few weeks. I rarely get that far. I usually just park the concept in a folder on some storage media, put a printout in a groaning filing cabinet, and move on. Why? Because, honestly, most stories bore me. The ones that I may pursue, I pursue because their characters have depth and purpose, because they have intrinsic worth as individuals. I love to see them thrive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can dream up plots and stories in the span of a rat&#8217;s whisker twitch. I can map that story out in a few hours. Writing up the draft, if I&#8217;m selfish and tell the world to take a hike, takes a few weeks. Then comes the rewrite, which can take another few weeks. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}