{"id":474,"date":"2004-08-03T01:40:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/03\/letters-to-a-young-hip-and-coming-writer\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:43:01","slug":"letters-to-a-young-hip-and-coming-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/03\/letters-to-a-young-hip-and-coming-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to a Young Hip-and-Coming Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French tend to consider that, in order to become a talented writer, one has to spend their days in smoke-filled caf\u00e9s, possibly while drinking oneself blind on exotic liquors.<br \/>\nAmericans think the secret to becoming a good author lies in bullet lists of writing techniques and prestigious writing classes.<\/p>\n<p>I am no writer (understatement if there ever was one), but something tells me they are both dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I do not think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danbrown.com\/\">Dan Brown<\/a> is much of an author, to say nothing of the hordes of navel-gazing, bored &#038; boring, Parisian writers who persists in trying to give their worst second-class Bret Easton Ellis rendition every single year&#8230; So what do I know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French tend to consider that, in order to become a talented writer, one has to spend their days in smoke-filled caf\u00e9s, possibly while drinking oneself blind on exotic liquors. Americans think the secret to becoming a good author lies in bullet lists of writing techniques and prestigious writing classes. I am no writer (understatement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-insignificant-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}