{"id":3095,"date":"2013-10-29T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:55:46","slug":"lining-up-these-book-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/lining-up-these-book-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Lining Up These Book Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3096\" alt=\"Guys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Guys.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" \/>I have guy characters in this novel who are not doing what they\u2019re supposed to do.\u00a0 They manipulate the system, they\u2019re preoccupied by computer games, they smell like work, they talk back to adults, they take stupid risks, they\u2019re restless, they&#8217;re competitive, and their timing is awful. \u00a0They\u2019re also thoughtful, generous with small things and big, intensely creative, loyal to their families, and fierce.\u00a0 One is good at kissing in the rain.\u00a0 Another is funny.<\/p>\n<p>I know, as a writer, I should line up one of these guys in a proper swoony relationship with my teen girl protagonist, or work them all into a tight little triangle, but every single one of us is resisting.\u00a0 The guys could care less what I think.\u00a0 The girl is busy with bigger issues.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when certain people show up in a scene together, I can feel tiny charged particles zipping around, pushing and pulling the characters away from and toward each other.\u00a0 It hurts, somehow, and it\u2019s fun, too.\u00a0 I wish I knew what was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s a good sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have guy characters in this novel who are not doing what they\u2019re supposed to do.\u00a0 They manipulate the system, they\u2019re preoccupied by computer games, they smell like work, they talk back to adults, they take stupid risks, they\u2019re restless, they&#8217;re competitive, and their timing is awful. \u00a0They\u2019re also thoughtful, generous with small things and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[246,37],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-project-next","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}