{"id":1418,"date":"2015-01-03T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2020-01-11T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T18:29:15","slug":"the-sole-secret-of-short-story-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/03\/the-sole-secret-of-short-story-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The sole secret of short-story writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;ll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can&#8217;t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.<\/p><cite>\u2014 O. Henry<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can&#8217;t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/03\/the-sole-secret-of-short-story-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The sole secret of short-story writing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}