{"id":2552,"date":"2007-05-19T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2007-05-19T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T05:11:00","slug":"2552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2552","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Maureen F. McHugh <a href=\"http:\/\/maureenmcq.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/plot-thickening.html\">has an interesting writing assignment in mind<\/a> for her students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe set up a situation&#8211;someone walks into a room where someone is dead in a kitchen chair at the table&#8211;and generate what might happen next if the character is a detective, or if the character is a twenty-two year old governess who thinks of herself as plain, or if the character is a psychopathic killer, or if the character is a child. I&#8217;m very interested in the conventions we have established and in what reader expectations are in these situations, and how we deal with reader expectations. I think that a lot of plot is a tightrope walk between the cliche and the completely unexpected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen F. McHugh has an interesting writing assignment in mind for her students: Maybe set up a situation&#8211;someone walks into a room where someone is dead in a kitchen chair at the table&#8211;and generate what might happen next if the character is a detective, or if the character is a twenty-two year old governess who &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2552\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}