{"id":3599,"date":"2019-08-15T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/whats-that-you-say\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:46:28","slug":"whats-that-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s that you say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been told by one of my beta-readers that I&#8217;m going just a <em>little<\/em> too far on the MC&#8217;s\/narrator&#8217;s dialect in the work-in-progress. And while my other beta doesn&#8217;t have the same complaint, I&#8217;m inclined to listen. Written dialect is one of those things where a little goes a <em>very<\/em> long way, and even the slightest bit too much can render the text silly and\/or unreadable to some of the audience. So yeah; now I just need to decide if I want to make the changes from this point on, or keep writing as I have been and then change the manuscript all at once.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s not a difficult change to make&#8211;mostly, I think, just a few find-and-replaces&#8211;so I&#8217;m honestly not sure if it&#8217;s worth the mental shift to make the change for the remainder of the book or not.)<\/p>\n<p>And yep, I said &quot;MC\/narrator.&quot; I haven&#8217;t written in first-person in <em>years<\/em>, except for a couple of short stories, but this book concept absolutely demanded it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been told by one of my beta-readers that I&#8217;m going just a little too far on the MC&#8217;s\/narrator&#8217;s dialect in the work-in-progress. And while my other beta doesn&#8217;t have the same complaint, I&#8217;m inclined to listen. Written dialect is one of those things where a little goes a very long way, and even the slightest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}