{"id":11045,"date":"2014-04-02T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:51","slug":"bullshot-matthew-baker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-matthew-baker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Matthew Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: The narrator describes many small details about the landscape at King\u2019s Hot Chicken Shack. This attention to detail fits with a story narrated by a security guard monitoring a scene, and the details really added flavor and feeling to the story. Would you discuss your views on how much detail to unfurl for a given story and your creative approach for thinking about what to cut\/keep during revisions?<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>MB<\/strong>: I used to be a minimalist. I thought, &#8220;Tell readers just enough that they can fill in the rest themselves.&#8221; I thought, &#8220;Tell them there&#8217;s a quilt in the room. And a chair. And a floor. Then they&#8217;ll see everything.&#8221; Now though, something&#8217;s changed. My palate, I guess. I&#8217;ve undergone some transformation, unintentionally, as a storyteller. Now I&#8217;m a maximalist. Now I think, &#8220;Tell readers so much that they almost have to squint from all that color.&#8221; Now I think, &#8220;Tell them there&#8217;s a faded quilt draped over a tufted armchair with cracking leather, and wool socks drying on a radiator, and discolored wallpaper with a pattern of vines,\u00a0and gusts of snow rattling the windowpanes, and a rug, and a globe, and a missing floorboard beneath which something may have been hidden and then taken away. Then they see everything.&#8221; To me this story seems to have both minimalist and maximalist moments&#8230; I must have written it somewhere midtransformation? (That&#8217;s the room where I&#8217;m sitting now, by the way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;King&#8217;s Man&#8221; on how he thinks about writing details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,342],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-the-writing-craft","tag-writing","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}