{"id":475,"date":"2013-05-24T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=475"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:57:08","slug":"writing-and-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2013\/05\/24\/writing-and-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the insights of John Gardner&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393320030\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0393320030&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=aaremm-20\" target=\"_blank\">On Becoming a Novelist<\/a> is that writing is about how you see the world.\u00c2\u00a0 You can only write what you imagine or observe.\u00c2\u00a0 And in that sense (I&#8217;m extrapolating here) fiction is about what writers notice and find important enough to share.<\/p>\n<p>To be admitted into what Gardner terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the highest class of novelists,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writers must be eager to understand not only themselves but others.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He must have sufficient self-esteem that he is not threatened by difference, and sufficient warmth and sympathy, and a sufficient concern with fairness, that he wants to value people different from himself, and finally he must have, I think, sufficient faith in the goodness of life that he can not only tolerate but celebrate a world of differences, conflicts, oppositions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the insights of John Gardner&#8217;s classic On Becoming a Novelist is that writing is about how you see the world.\u00c2\u00a0 You can only write what you imagine or observe.\u00c2\u00a0 And in that sense (I&#8217;m extrapolating here) fiction is about what writers notice and find important enough to share. To be admitted into what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[31,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}