{"id":3689,"date":"2010-01-11T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:30:44","slug":"monday-various-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ursula K. Le Guin <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bookviewcafe.com\/2009\/07\/16\/on-rules-of-writing-or-riffing-on-rechy\/\">On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">As for &#8220;Write what you know,&#8221; I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it&#8217;s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it&#8217;s my duty to testify about them. I got my knowledge of them, as I got whatever knowledge I have of the hearts and minds of human beings, through imagination working on observation. Like any other novelist. All this rule needs is a good definition of &#8220;know.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>At this rate, NBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2010\/01\/nbcs-sci-fi-day-one-shrin.php\">Day One<\/a> is going to end up as nothing but a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blipvert\">blipvert<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dresdencodak.com\/2009\/05\/11\/42-essential-3rd-act-twists\/\">42 Essential 3rd Act Twists<\/a> [<a href=\"www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I really like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintageadbrowser.com\/\">vintage ad search engine<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/worldfamousdesignjunkies.com\/museum\/batgirl-is-now-prince\/\">Batgirl Is Now Prince<\/a>. Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/worldfamousdesignjunkies.com\/illustration\/marvel-comics-heads-to-springfield\/\">Marvel Comics as <i>Simpsons<\/i> characters<\/a> [<a href=\"www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula K. Le Guin On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy: As for &#8220;Write what you know,&#8221; I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it&#8217;s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3689\">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":[19,20,9,11,17,10,12],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689"}],"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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}