{"id":1143,"date":"2017-06-10T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:21:03","slug":"10th-june-2017-what-am-i-learning-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"10th June 2017 &#8211; What am I learning right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1144\" src=\"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/41EX0mGrQhL._AC_UL320_SR214320_-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/41EX0mGrQhL._AC_UL320_SR214320_-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/41EX0mGrQhL._AC_UL320_SR214320_.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>I have an impressive collection of &#8220;how to&#8221; books and every time I am out and I see a new one I will invariably buy it. I flick through them and add it tot he shelf. As part of the drive to actually do something now I am going to work through them. Maybe this self doubt I have about how terrible my writing is will recede when I actually work through some of these books and learn a better way of writing.<\/p>\n<p>So as part of this new focus on writing I have dropped the several &#8220;how to&#8221; books that I was using and picked one to start with, then hopefully I can work my way through them fast enough to be ready for NaNo this year.<\/p>\n<p>This one is one of the several Write Great series. The one I am starting with is Dialogue. Part of the problem I have when I start to write is not being very good at melding dialogue with description. This book should help me to get a handle on how to do and and how to make sure my characters have depth and come alive on the page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an impressive collection of &#8220;how to&#8221; books and every time I am out and I see a new one I will invariably buy it. I flick through them and add it tot he shelf. As part of the drive to actually do something now I am going to work through them. Maybe this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}