{"id":2519,"date":"2022-11-29T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2022-11-29T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:39:06","slug":"a-few-words-from-sigmund-brouwer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2022\/11\/29\/a-few-words-from-sigmund-brouwer\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words from Sigmund Brouwer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2022\/11\/Sigmund-Brouwer-headshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2520 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2022\/11\/Sigmund-Brouwer-headshot-150x150.png\" alt=\"Sigmund Brouwer headshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>During his visit Nov. 17, Sigmund Brouwer held a session in FLEX for a few keen creative writers.\u00a0 Sophia Hu, one of our Library bloggers, kept a record to share some of the questions he answered.\u00a0 The excerpts below are not his exact words, but summarize his responses.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: What is your writing process?<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0I have a target audience in mind<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I think of what reaction do you want to provoke in your audience<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I research<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I write (search for a story)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Q: What emotions do you want to provoke in your audience?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It depends on who the target audience is and what causes them to react in a certain way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: Why did you become an author?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because I loved reading.\u00a0 Humans are driven by stories and crave emotional reactions.\u00a0 As an author you can do all that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: what is your favourite part of writing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Research and prewriting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: What are some tips you have for aspiring writers?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Send your short stories to multiple magazines to get them published.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to stories in real life.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be tentative or too critical to your own work.<\/li>\n<li>What does your character want the most? Don\u2019t give it to them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brouwer also explained how he views stories in 3 aspects and each requires different skills:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>story<\/li>\n<li>writing system<\/li>\n<li>technical skill<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit Nov. 17, Sigmund Brouwer held a session in FLEX for a few keen creative writers.\u00a0 Sophia Hu, one of our Library bloggers, kept a record to share some of the questions he answered.\u00a0 The excerpts below are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2022\/11\/29\/a-few-words-from-sigmund-brouwer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}