{"id":1005,"date":"2012-04-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:35:32","slug":"toon-thursday-you-too-can-be-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: You, Too, Can Be a Fiction Writer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toon Thursday is back with a brand-new cartoon today, and you will surely be thrilled to know that I have updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/p\/toon-thursday-archives.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toon Thursday Archives<\/a>, too (which, if you haven&#8217;t looked, is an exhaustive list of every Toon Thursday I&#8217;ve ever posted). As always, click the cartoon to view larger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DxClVPT1obw\/T3zwc2hNtvI\/AAAAAAAADWM\/-MxWDiY2TEg\/s1600\/Toolkit-Backstory.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Toolkit-Backstory.jpg\" width=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nYes. Well. Viking fathers, orange mothers, and pastry chef infamy aside, this could actually BE a fun way to brainstorm character ideas if you&#8217;re really stuck. Why not, really? I often feel like I&#8217;m just picking ideas at random anyway&#8211;at least, for the parts of the backstory that don&#8217;t immediately follow from what I already know about the character. (&#8220;Hmm&#8230;I&#8217;ve always wanted to visit Moscow. Let&#8217;s make this character from&#8230;Moscow, Idaho! And, uh, I like lizards. When she was kid she had a pet lizard! Who died tragically in a&#8230;uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t know! Earthquake! Volcano! Flood! COLLAPSED BURROW!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Any and all REAL backstory tips to share, please feel free to leave them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toon Thursday is back with a brand-new cartoon today, and you will surely be thrilled to know that I have updated the Toon Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,77,10,52],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}