{"id":826,"date":"2021-07-31T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2021-08-01T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:23:57","slug":"why-doesnt-my-story-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/why-doesnt-my-story-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t my Story Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four possible problems with your story are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Terrible structure<\/li>\n<li>Too many characters, not enough development<\/li>\n<li>Too much description<\/li>\n<li>Needless dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritepractice.com\/how-to-write-good-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Write Good Fiction: 4 Foundational Skills and How to Build Them<\/a><\/em> by J.D. Edwin at <a href=\"https:\/\/thewritepractice.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Write Practice<\/a>\u00a0for excellent tips to identify and correct these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four possible problems with your story are: Terrible structure Too many characters, not enough development Too much description Needless dialogue Read How to Write Good Fiction: 4 Foundational Skills and How to Build Them by J.D. Edwin at The Write Practice\u00a0for excellent tips to identify and correct these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}