{"id":1741,"date":"2008-02-29T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/02\/29\/story-hacks-seventh-in-a-series\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T22:56:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:56:29","slug":"story-hacks-seventh-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/02\/29\/story-hacks-seventh-in-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Hacks:  Seventh in a Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A limited word count is a great way to inspire creativity.  But don&#8217;t let that turn you off to it!  It also makes for an excellent back-cover hook.<\/p>\n<p>First, pick an arbitrary number and cling to it with the focus of a brain-damaged pit bull.  Second, write!  Having trouble?  Apply our patented methods to shave back your flow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid topics you know anything about.<\/li>\n<li>Skip the beginning, end, and, preferably, the middle.<\/li>\n<li>Utilize compoundwords and contraction&#8217;s!<\/li>\n<li>Or just entirely!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Above all, don&#8217;t be too strict with yourself.  Nobody&#8217;s going to fucking count them.<\/p>\n<p><i>Today&#8217;s Hack in a Nutshell:<\/i>  Tdyshcknantshll!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A limited word count is a great way to inspire creativity. But don&#8217;t let that turn you off to it! It also makes for an excellent back-cover hook. First, pick an arbitrary number and cling to it with the focus of a brain-damaged pit bull. Second, write! Having trouble? Apply our patented methods to shave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constrained-writing","category-mild-lunacy","category-story-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}