{"id":75,"date":"2014-05-27T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:54:35","slug":"emma-coats-on-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Emma Coats on fairy tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Austin Kleon&#8217;s <em>Show Your Work<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, outline the basic structure of a fairy tale as a kind of Mad Lib that you can fill in with your own elements:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once upon a time, there was ______. Every day,\u00a0______. One day,\u00a0______. Because of that,\u00a0______. Because of that,\u00a0______. Until finally,\u00a0______.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pick your favorite story and try to fill in the blanks. It&#8217;s striking how often it works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, <a title=\"Emma Coats' Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/storyshots.tumblr.com\/\">Emma Coats has a Tumblr<\/a>, and describes herself as &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">freelance director of films, boarder of story, and sometime public speaker.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Austin Kleon&#8217;s Show Your Work &#8211; Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, outline the basic structure of a fairy tale as a kind of Mad Lib that you can fill in with your own elements: &#8220;Once upon a time, there was ______. Every day,\u00a0______. One day,\u00a0______. Because of that,\u00a0______. Because of that,\u00a0______. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tm.spurlock.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}