{"id":1798,"date":"2012-03-07T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:51:35","slug":"the-rules-disease-at-write-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/the-rules-disease-at-write-to-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rules Disease at Write to The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120304_111441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120304_111441-tm.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"IMG_20120304_111441.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a new essay on writing at the Write to the End blog, called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/writetotheend.com\/2012\/03\/anthony\/the-rules-disease\/\">The Rules Disease<\/a>.&#8221; A preview:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Anyone who seriously tackles the craft of writing is likely to have encountered a writing\u00ad rule, like \u201cShow, Don\u2019t Tell,\u201d or \u201cNever Begin a Sentence with a Conjunction.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Split Infinitives\u201d and \u201cNever Head Hop\u201d are also popular. The granddaddy of all of them, \u201cOmit Needless Words,\u201d is deliciously self-explanatory \u2026 but the ever baffling \u201cMurder Your Darlings\u201d is a rule so confusing it deserves its own essay.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is part of my ongoing column <a href=\"http:\/\/writetotheend.com\/tag\/the-centaurs-pen\/\">The Centaur&#8217;s Pen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve a new essay on writing at the Write to the End blog, called &#8220;The Rules Disease.&#8221; A preview: Anyone who seriously tackles the craft of writing is likely to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,19,8,66],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-hard-science","tag-intelligence","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}