{"id":780,"date":"2004-02-20T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=780"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"writing_fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/20\/writing_fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pub43.ezboard.com\/fabsolutewritefrm3.showMessageRange?topicID=257.topic&amp;start=1&amp;stop=20\">James D. Macdonald<\/a> has posted lots of advice for fiction writers (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrykindall.com\/2004\/02\/19_learn_writing_with_uncle_jim.asp\">Jerry Kindall<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/7969094.htm\">William Gibson<\/a>, author of the influential but somewhat trashy <em>Neuromancer<\/em>, and famous user of ancient hardware:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/7969094.htm\">\n<p>\n&ldquo;I remember [in the early &rsquo;80s] seeing posters for the small, semi-portable version of the Apple IIc,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Quite a lot of what I subsequently imagined in my early science fiction simply came from seeing that ad in a bus stop. I didn&rsquo;t know anything about it technologically. I just thought if it&rsquo;s that small and that nicely styled, everything is changing.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James D. Macdonald has posted lots of advice for fiction writers (via Jerry Kindall). William Gibson, author of the influential but somewhat trashy Neuromancer, and famous user of ancient hardware: &ldquo;I remember [in the early &rsquo;80s] seeing posters for the small, semi-portable version of the Apple IIc,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Quite a lot of what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}