{"id":289,"date":"2021-07-02T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:39:13","slug":"mysterious-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/02\/mysterious-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How does one write a mysterious stranger? Well, I would say that it all comes down to how this mysterious stranger is like. Is he for good or for bad? Does he have evil intentions or more playful? When I write someone who is mysterious, I write it with the intention who what this person is there for. Whether it is for horrors or for fun, the mysterious stranger can still reflex a certain fear factor that can help create a certain vibe within a book. I do think that creating mystery is not as easy as it could seem. A writer has to not just make the character sound mysterious but also aloof and unknown to what their intentions are. Creating an unknown character, I find, can be fun and crazy at times. But as a writer, you have to have some fun in your work or why write?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me know how you create a mysterious stranger, would love to hear about it. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/alone-764926_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"290\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/alone-764926_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=290\" class=\"wp-image-290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/alone-764926_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/alone-764926_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/alone-764926_640-210x140.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one write a mysterious stranger? Well, I would say that it all comes down to how this mysterious stranger is like. Is he for good or for bad? Does he have evil intentions or more playful? When I write someone who is mysterious, I write it with the intention who what this person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}