{"id":3290,"date":"2009-01-05T23:16:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2009-01-05T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T04:16:45","slug":"one-on-writing-one-on-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"One on writing, one on reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theodoragoss.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/nutcracker.html\">Theordora Goss<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The story should never stop, not in a ballet, not in an opera, not in a story. When the story stops (in a ballet, an opera, whatever), all that&#8217;s left are technical exercises.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christopherbarzak.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/26\/on-reading\/\">Christopher Barzak<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The more you consistently read in such great quantities, though, the harder it is to be caught in a story\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spell. You learn the tricks and see the hands moving\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this is also one of the signs of a story that gets its spell off and holds its reader: you never see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming, the trick retains its secrecy and mystery, it remains magical despite your best explanations.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theordora Goss: The story should never stop, not in a ballet, not in an opera, not in a story. When the story stops (in a ballet, an opera, whatever), all that&#8217;s left are technical exercises. Christopher Barzak: The more you consistently read in such great quantities, though, the harder it is to be caught in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3290\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,12],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}