{"id":4742,"date":"2012-08-19T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2012-08-19T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T18:00:03","slug":"page-turning-prose-week-ending-august-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=4742","title":{"rendered":"Page-Turning Prose (Week Ending August 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I try to leave out the parts people skip.&#8221; ~\u00a0Elmore Leonard (<em>Get Shorty<\/em>,\u00a0<em>3:10 to Yuma<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Writers all want readers to turn the page. The key is to have the reader so engrossed in the story that he or she doesn&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s the end of a scene &#8212; or a chapter &#8212; and plows ahead without stopping. Some writers excel at this, and while there&#8217;s no magic formula every writer looks for it.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we&#8217;re asking the writers in the Confabulator Cafe what they do to keep the reader turning the page. Is it description, characters, some trick of style? Do they always end a chapter on a cliff-hanger?<\/p>\n<p>We hope you learn something from this week&#8217;s writing advice from our authors.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;d like some more great writing tips from authors who aren&#8217;t part of the Cafe (but certainly could be), check out this great post on BuzzFeed: <a title=\"30 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/expresident\/writing-advice-from-famous-authors\" target=\"_blank\">30 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until Next Week,<\/p>\n<p>The Cafe Management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I try to leave out the parts people skip.&#8221; ~\u00a0Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty,\u00a03:10 to Yuma) Writers all want readers to turn the page. The key is to have the reader so engrossed in the story that he or she doesn&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s the end of a scene &#8212; or a chapter &#8212; and plows ahead [&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":[1191],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-turning-the-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}