{"id":18111,"date":"2013-05-21T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/21\/spend-some-time-living-before-you-start-writing\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:44:14","slug":"spend-some-time-living-before-you-start-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/21\/spend-some-time-living-before-you-start-writing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Spend some time living before you start writing. What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, \u201cWrite what you know.\u201d It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don\u2019t develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong><span>ANNIE PROULX<\/span><\/strong> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/okami-rayne.tumblr.com\/\">okami-rayne<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend some time living before you start writing. What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, \u201cWrite what you know.\u201d It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don\u2019t develop any facility for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/21\/spend-some-time-living-before-you-start-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[939],"class_list":["post-18111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writerlife","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}