{"id":5372,"date":"2016-09-17T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2016-09-17T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:22:23","slug":"how-to-write-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/how-to-write-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write and why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/sep\/10\/my-best-writing-tip-william-boyd-jeanette-winterson\">a great set of advice on writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Creativity is inexhaustible. Experiment, play, throw away. Above all be confident enough about creativity to throw stuff out. If it isn\u2019t working, don\u2019t cut and paste \u2013 scrap it and\u00a0begin again. &#8211; Jeanette Winterston<\/p>\n<p>Remind yourself, every day, that you\u2019re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking. &#8211; Naomi Alderman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a great set of advice on writing: Creativity is inexhaustible. Experiment, play, throw away. Above all be confident enough about creativity to throw stuff out. If it isn\u2019t working, don\u2019t cut and paste \u2013 scrap it and\u00a0begin again. &#8211; Jeanette Winterston Remind yourself, every day, that you\u2019re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking. &#8211; Naomi Alderman. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-1oE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}