{"id":1261,"date":"2016-01-16T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2016-01-16T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:23:46","slug":"amelias-rules-for-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/1261","title":{"rendered":"Amelia&#8217;s Rules for Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\"><i>Amelia&#8217;s Rules for Writing<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Use imagery instead of adverbs. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Don&#8217;t write like you know everything.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Write true sentences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Be an interesting person.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Be aware of what you imply and that everything implies something.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Borrow from other authors \u2013 preferably dead ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Use repetition, alliteration and such artificial devices sparingly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">Hide yourself as the narrator; reveal yourself at your own risk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">The more brutal the advice, the more open you should be to it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\">And remember, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\"><i>almost<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif;\"> all things in moderation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia&#8217;s Rules for Writing Use imagery instead of adverbs. Don&#8217;t write like you know everything. Write true sentences. Be an interesting person. Be aware of what you imply and that everything implies something. Borrow from other authors \u2013 preferably dead ones. Use repetition, alliteration and such artificial devices sparingly. Hide yourself as the narrator; reveal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-kl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}