{"id":124059,"date":"2015-12-06T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/06\/writing-stories-is-hard-work-dont-let-your\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T19:41:48","slug":"writing-stories-is-hard-work-dont-let-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/06\/writing-stories-is-hard-work-dont-let-your\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Writing stories is hard work. Don\u2019t let your friends or family tell you any different. From the outside, it looks like sporadic tapping on the keyboard, distracted sips of coffee, and long stares out the window. But inside, you\u2019re wrestling demons. You\u2019re about to bring a new story into the world, which is both incredible and incredibly important.<br \/>\nWhy are stories important? \u2026A good story can mean the difference between life and death for a reader\u2014usually the death is spiritual rather than literal, but spiritual deaths can be just as painful and just as consuming. Storytelling is a part of every human culture because every human needs survival information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Gene Luen Yang, <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/pep-talks\/gene-luen-yang\" target=\"_blank\">on the importance of writing your story<\/a>.<br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nanowrimo.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">nanowrimo<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing stories is hard work. Don\u2019t let your friends or family tell you any different. From the outside, it looks like sporadic tapping on the keyboard, distracted sips of coffee, and long stares out the window. But inside, you\u2019re wrestling demons. You\u2019re about to bring a new story into the world, which is both incredible &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/06\/writing-stories-is-hard-work-dont-let-your\/\" 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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4551,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}