{"id":5822,"date":"2015-03-01T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2015-03-01T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:59:42","slug":"writing-cinematically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=5822","title":{"rendered":"Writing Cinematically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1745 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft.jpg\" alt=\"craft\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/craft-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tend to write what I think of as &#8220;cinematically&#8221; &#8212; the book tends to play in my head like a little movie, and I write down what I &#8220;see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsykes.com\">Sam Sykes<\/a> made a really interesting point today on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>I tend to think of a lot of prose in terms of cinema. Descriptions can be broken down into far shots, near shots, establishing shots, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamSykesSwears\/status\/572151664561414145\">March 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mind totally blown. I&#8217;ve never really thought about the &#8220;depth&#8221; of the shot before. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to have to reevaluate\u00a0about how I describe things visually.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo, Chloe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to write what I think of as &#8220;cinematically&#8221; &#8212; the book tends to play in my head like a little movie, and I write down what I &#8220;see.&#8221; Fantasy author\u00a0Sam Sykes made a really interesting point today on Twitter: I tend to think of a lot of prose in terms of cinema. Descriptions<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=5822\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}