{"id":129,"date":"2018-10-14T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/?p=129"},"modified":"2018-10-14T23:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:33:40","slug":"writing-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2018\/10\/14\/writing-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realised not that long ago that one of my hobbies these days is collecting &#8216;Rules for writing&#8217; from various authors. One of the first I tried was Stephen King&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/10\/stephen-kings-20-rules-writers.html\">On Writing<\/a>, summarised in the link there, and the core point of that entire book is this:<\/p>\n<p>Writing is a job, so have a schedule and put the hours in.<\/p>\n<p>This is what they all, in the end, boil down to. There might be some fluff about craft and technique, or even about not doing <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/kurt-vonneguts-greatest-writing-advice\/\">scary things out the window<\/a>, but a vast number of authors have spent a huge amount of words trying to communicate&#8230; that writing is a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realised not that long ago that one of my hobbies these days is collecting &#8216;Rules for writing&#8217; from various authors. One of the first I tried was Stephen King&#8217;s On Writing, summarised in the link there, and the core point of that entire book is this: Writing is a job, so have a schedule &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2018\/10\/14\/writing-advice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing advice<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}