{"id":5478,"date":"2018-11-28T21:42:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2018-11-28T21:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:42:17","slug":"alert-to-the-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/alert-to-the-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert to the Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"window<\/a>Late November brings a different sort of beauty to New England, with a subtle palette marked by grays. With the foliage gone, new distances emerge in the forests, and exposed branches tangle against the flat sky. We taste the cold air and watch the weather reports for warnings of bad roads. Random snowflakes can appear out of nowhere. You might think we\u2019re inclined to hibernate, but in fact, we\u2019re more alert, not less. We\u2019re thankful, and watchful, and eager to get home safe to our families.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing, as always. My characters are transforming in conversation after conversation. I work steadily in my most recent draft, making progress by adding new scenes, cutting others that no longer matter, shifting descriptions of settings to where they\u2019re more relevant but won\u2019t bog down pacing. Today I worked for hours on one key conversation, listening as my characters formulated attempt after attempt to speak in the truest way possible. True doesn\u2019t always mean honesty. Often it\u2019s how characters don\u2019t<\/em> say something that makes their words convincing. Then, when they do finally admit what they think, it\u2019s beautiful and raw, like those stark November branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late November brings a different sort of beauty to New England, with a subtle palette marked by grays. With the foliage gone, new distances emerge in the forests, and exposed branches tangle against the flat sky. We taste the cold air and watch the weather reports for warnings of bad roads. Random snowflakes can appear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}