{"id":15,"date":"2014-10-29T19:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caitlinseal.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-10-29T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:12:56","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Hello World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey internet.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is likely to be rambling\u00a0and strange. There might be cookies, or cats, or evil space monkeys. No promises.<\/p>\n<p>But for\u00a0these first few posts I&#8217;m going to talk about helpful writing resources I&#8217;ve found over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s resource is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingexcuses.com\/\">Writing Excuses<\/a> podcast featuring Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, and Mary Robinette Kowal. I found Writing Excuses on the recommendation of a friend a few years back, and have been hooked ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is pretty huge. But for those who don&#8217;t know about it, the archives are a fantastic (and amusing) resource. Most useful to me have been the discussions on worldbuilding and on adjusting characters with Brandon&#8217;s slider system.\u00a0There are also some great posts on the business side of writing that cover everything from small-press publishing to online etiquette.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from all the useful information, these guys are just plain fun to listen to. And the episodes\u00a0are all under twenty minutes, so they make for a good break when your brain&#8217;s gone mushy from too much plotting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey internet. This blog is likely to be rambling\u00a0and strange. There might be cookies, or cats, or evil space monkeys. No promises. But for\u00a0these first few posts I&#8217;m going to talk about helpful writing resources I&#8217;ve found over the years. Today&#8217;s resource is the Writing Excuses podcast featuring Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caitlinseal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}