{"id":14128,"date":"2014-01-31T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2014-01-31T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:26:08","slug":"five-writing-rules-you-cant-live-without-breaking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14128","title":{"rendered":"Five Writing Rules You Can&#8217;t Live Without Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor Nick Harrison talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickharrisonbooks.com\/blog\/?p=849\">writing advice he dislikes<\/a>, such as writing what you know and never using passive voice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWrite even if you know you\u2019ll never be published.\u201d  Apparently the idea is that a writer writes because he has to (which I agree with) and that writing is somehow its own reward (which I disagree with). I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m writing to be published. I\u2019m glad I don\u2019t know whether or not I will have more books published in the future because if I knew my writing would never see the light of day, I\u2019d probably be tempted to quit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor Nick Harrison talks about the writing advice he dislikes, such as writing what you know and never using passive voice. \u201cWrite even if you know you\u2019ll never be published.\u201d Apparently the idea is that a writer writes because he has to (which I agree with) and that writing is somehow its own reward (which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Writing Rules You Can&#8217;t Live Without Breaking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}