{"id":2955,"date":"2010-11-29T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2010-11-29T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T17:03:37","slug":"writing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/writing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually a big fan of lists of writing tips from famous people, but this particular tip from Chuck Palahniuk is laser-focused on a big problem I have:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Number Eight: If you need more freedom around the story, draft to draft, change the character names. Characters aren&#8217;t real, and they aren&#8217;t you. By arbitrarily changing their names, you get the distance you need to really torture a character. Or worse, delete a character, if that&#8217;s what the story really needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, OK, and Number 11 is pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckpalahniuk.net\/features\/essays\/chuck-palahniuk\" target=\"_blank\"> 13 Writing Tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually a big fan of lists of writing tips from famous people, but this particular tip from Chuck Palahniuk is laser-focused on a big problem I have: Number Eight: If you need more freedom around the story, draft to draft, change the character names. Characters aren&#8217;t real, and they aren&#8217;t you. By arbitrarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[227,254,815,1224,1322],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-characters","tag-chuck-palahniuk","tag-names","tag-tips","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-LF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}