{"id":1104,"date":"2013-04-01T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2013-04-06T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T21:25:28","slug":"bits-on-pattern-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Bits on Pattern Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes on writing stuff I gleaned from reading Gibson&#8217;s <em>Pattern Recognition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place, place, place.<\/strong> Gibson&#8217;s descriptions of locations are always excellent, but in PR I noticed just how much of that comes from characterization. The settings are described with details that only Cayce Pollard would notice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emails as denouement.<\/strong> Now this was cool. All the loose ends were neatly tied by showing a series of pertinent emails from various characters to the MC. Neat and easy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Girl stuff. Really?<\/strong>\u00a0A makeover scene AND the MC finally becoming happy once she&#8217;s found a man? Come on now. This is the sort of thing people mean when they talk about strong female characters. Here&#8217;s a great woman, and the last scene is her comfortably in bed with a man. Because god forbid she be happy on her own. Boo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes on writing stuff I gleaned from reading Gibson&#8217;s Pattern Recognition. Place, place, place. Gibson&#8217;s descriptions of locations are always excellent, but in PR I noticed just how much of that comes from characterization. The settings are described with details that only Cayce Pollard would notice. Emails as denouement. Now this was cool. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}