{"id":5772,"date":"2011-01-11T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2011-01-11T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:47:53","slug":"writers-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5772","title":{"rendered":"Writers on writing, teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2010\/12\/nebula-awards-interview-rachel-swirsky-by-larry-nolen\/\">Rachel Swirsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, writers are all frenetic bundles of experiences and influences. Might I have eventually realized how to improve my prose on my own? Probably. But would the stories I write be the same if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have Michael Swanwick in my head saying that all stories are a balance between dinosaurs and sodomy? Almost certainly not. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theodoragoss.com\/2010\/12\/09\/teaching-and-writing\/\">Theodora Goss<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the beginning of the semester, I tell my students that writing is a system of black squiggles that we use to conveying meaning. In other words, writing is itself, ab initio, an insane enterprise. And we go on from there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Swirsky: Anyway, writers are all frenetic bundles of experiences and influences. Might I have eventually realized how to improve my prose on my own? Probably. But would the stories I write be the same if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have Michael Swanwick in my head saying that all stories are a balance between dinosaurs and sodomy? &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5772\">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-5772","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\/5772"}],"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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}