{"id":7651,"date":"2013-05-29T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:17","slug":"bullshot-john-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-john-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: John Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>PW<\/strong>: It\u2019s a delicate thing, writing about sex. Seeing that you managed to smoothly pull it off, do you have any advice for how to approach penning a sex scene?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA: <\/strong>Too often I&#8217;ve read starkly graphic depictions of sex thinking that they serve no purpose, that these cinematic representations do nothing to further the movement of the pieces they inhabit. Sometimes I wonder if the writers think they&#8217;re shocking us, which would not only be pointless but delusional on their part. That said, my critique gives me my approach: everyone knows how it&#8217;s done, the reader can supply the clinical details, so just make it serve the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Tricks&#8221; on how to write sex<\/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":[14,342],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-sex","tag-writing","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","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=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17577,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/17577"}],"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=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}