{"id":585,"date":"2015-04-16T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-04-16T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:13:11","slug":"leaving-scrivener-and-requesting-your-opinion-on-writing-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/04\/16\/leaving-scrivener-and-requesting-your-opinion-on-writing-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Scrivener and requesting your opinion on writing style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just a brief post.<\/p>\n<p>Today I gave up on Scrivener. I have loved that program for so long, but it stopped working on my Windows 7 machine for reasons unknown and the support was less than helpful. So I used it on an ancient laptop to export my draft novel into MS Word and there it shall remain.<\/p>\n<p>These things said, I have been experimenting with writing style. This is me playing around with a new opening and I would like feedback from you folks&nbsp;as to whether or not it is too &#8220;purple&#8221; or too familiar. What would you change?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Greg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><em>Cello and fiddle throbbed the Green House, tumultuous and passionate like lusty lovers in a storm. Verdant hummed along with the music as he tiptoed past dozing guards, pausing only to tut at their ineptitude. Well, that was a bit unfair. Eldritch magic guarded this place and the guards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a brief post. Today I gave up on Scrivener. I have loved that program for so long, but it stopped working on my Windows 7 machine for reasons unknown and the support was less than helpful. So I used it on an ancient laptop to export my draft novel into MS Word and there it shall remain. These things said, I have been experimenting with writing style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-shadytales","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mythoughts.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}