{"id":364,"date":"2005-06-29T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/06\/29\/364\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:13:55","slug":"364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/06\/29\/364\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of author and editor interviews and stuff about writing workshops.  For a group of people who really ought to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politics_and_the_English_Language\" title=\"&quot;Figure of speech&quot; is not a figure of speech.\">Orwell&#8217;s first maxim<\/a>, it&#8217;s surprising how many of them declare in exactly the same words that the chief value of short fiction is to &#8220;hone your craft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quote that got bastardized into that meme is actually Larry Niven&#8217;s:  &#8220;Keep writing short stories. The money&#8217;s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.&#8221;  The difference in implication is substantial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of author and editor interviews and stuff about writing workshops. For a group of people who really ought to follow Orwell&#8217;s first maxim, it&#8217;s surprising how many of them declare in exactly the same words that the chief value of short fiction is to &#8220;hone your craft.&#8221; The quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}