{"id":3326,"date":"2009-01-30T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2009-01-30T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:38:07","slug":"three-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"Three on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Features\/2009\/01\/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> on &#8220;Writing in the Age of Distraction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dannystack.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/joss-whedons-top-10-writing-tips.html\">Joss Whedon<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Top 10 Writing Tips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/maureenmcq.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/10000-hours.html\">Maureen F. McHugh<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">For a competent writer, the way they do these things is intuitive. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tend to think about how much of the narrative is from the narrator and how much from the character. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not even aware that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m making those decisions. Neither is the unpracticed writer. The difference is that after years of practice, I have a set of unconscious skills that tell me what is more likely to be successful. I know when it \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeels right.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 For me, only after 10,000 hours could I actually start to think about a lot of the decisions I made to solve those problems. Before that, like learning to ride a bicycle, if I thought too much, I fell off. The prose got stiff, overly self-conscious, mannered in a bad way.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow on &#8220;Writing in the Age of Distraction. Joss Whedon&#8216;s &#8220;Top 10 Writing Tips.&#8221; And Maureen F. McHugh: For a competent writer, the way they do these things is intuitive. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tend to think about how much of the narrative is from the narrator and how much from the character. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not even &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3326\">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":[12],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326"}],"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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}