{"id":90,"date":"2013-01-15T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/?p=90"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:02:57","slug":"process-writing-prompts-for-civilwarland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2013\/01\/15\/process-writing-prompts-for-civilwarland\/","title":{"rendered":"750: Process-Writing Prompts for &#8220;Civilwarland&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the nature of power in this story? In other words, look at the characters who have power and ask yourself what they have the power to do. How does this connect to the larger meaning of the story?<\/p>\n<p>Is Sam insane or just evil? Coldly rational, or stone-cold crazy? In other words, does he know what he\u2019s doing, and does he know that it\u2019s wrong?<\/p>\n<p>The wife is the only character to say \u201cno\u201d to what\u2019s going on. Is she the only moral character, or does she contribute to this mess?<\/p>\n<p>How many civil wars are going on in this story? What does this seem to suggest? How does this create meaning?<\/p>\n<p>How many different \u201cvicious cycles\u201d are there in this story? What does this seem to suggest? How does this create meaning in the story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the nature of power in this story? In other words, look at the characters who have power and ask yourself what they have the power to do. How does this connect to the larger meaning of the story? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2013\/01\/15\/process-writing-prompts-for-civilwarland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19095],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}