{"id":966,"date":"2012-08-04T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2012-08-04T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T18:25:03","slug":"the-look-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"THE LOOK CHALLENGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Rice Adams, talented writer and my Texas rival in gatherin&#8217; all those wonderful maverick hunks, tagged me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jacquierogers.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/the-look-challenge-from-akmorgen-tag.html\" target=\"_blank\">LOOK Challenge<\/a>. &#8220;Look&#8221; is one of those words for which writers are always on the lookout. Like other words related to the senses, &#8220;look&#8221; can distance readers from the point-of-view character&#8217;s experience, so we try to use it with caution.\u00a0The Look Challenge is a game writers play to remind us to keep an eye out for the overused word and replace it with something more evocative when appropriate. (Plus, the game lets us show off snippets of our works in progress.)<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the Look Challenge require those who&#8217;ve been tagged to find the first occurrence of &#8220;look&#8221; in their work in progress, and\u00a0then post that\u00a0sentence and the surrounding paragraph(s). Then they have to tag an unspecified number of friends. Here&#8217;s my contribution. This is from the first draft of my wip OPEN FIRES a Western Historical:<\/p>\n<p>He tipped back his Stetson. \u201cWell I won\u2019t smell pretty, Miss Walker, but I\u2019ll be just fine in my shirt and denims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her mouth curved in what might have been the start of a smile for less than a second. She rose gathering the buckskins to her chest. He unfolded from the ground and looked around until he had to make a move. \u201cI\u2019ll just step outside while you change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again a small hand rested on his stopping him quicker than a bullet. She stripped his coat from her shoulders. \u201cYou need this.\u201d A tremor shook her body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo ma\u2019am you\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She gave her head a small shake and a flash of fire ignited behind the fear and shock in her eyes. No matter what ordeal the woman faced recently, Nathan recognized an iron will. That warm feeling in his belly started again. He yanked on the coat and stepped outside into the cold Montana night. How the hell did he get into this?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright @ 2012\u00a0 Kirsten Lynn (no re-printing or copying without permission from the author)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Rice Adams, talented writer and my Texas rival in gatherin&#8217; all those wonderful maverick hunks, tagged me in the LOOK Challenge. &#8220;Look&#8221; is one of those words for which writers are always on the lookout. Like other words related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/?p=966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenlynnwildwest.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}