{"id":11872,"date":"2014-10-08T05:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com?p=11872&#038;preview_id=11872"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:01","slug":"bullshot-chris-tusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-chris-tusa\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Chris Tusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cThe teenage girl I kidnapped is living in my basement.\u201d A first sentence that immediately grabs the reader. Would you discuss your creative approach to first sentences?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CT<\/strong>: In this technologically frenetic age, we are bombarded with information, to the point that we often become immune to its effects. For this reason, I tell my students that the first line of everything they write should instill a sense of urgency in the reader. The first line, I tell them, should provide conflict, and it should startle the reader. In short, it should give the reader no choice but to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Scrabble&#8221; on first lines<\/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],"class_list":["post-11872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-the-writing-craft","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872","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=11872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11880,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions\/11880"}],"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=11872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}