{"id":133,"date":"2014-03-05T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/write-vision-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:24:06","slug":"write-vision-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/write-vision-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Write the Vision Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><i>Ten Commandments of Writing <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n1. When thou knowest not the spelling of a word, thou shalt<br \/>\nlook it up.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n2. Thou shalt edit each manuscript before submitting. Yea<br \/>\nverily, thou shalt put chapter ten before chapter eleven.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n3. Before thou speakest ill of the comments of thy critique partner or<br \/>\nthy editor, thou shalt remember they are readers too.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n4. Thou shalt spend less time worrying why thy critique partner or<br \/>\nthy editor didst not mark thy mistake and remember the mistake is thine.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n5. Thou must use thy logic, else hands and hair shalt fly to<br \/>\nthe heavens. Yea verily, eyes shall roll upon the floor.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n6. Thou shalt ignore the teachings of false prophets who use<br \/>\nsuch words as snuck, alright, and brung.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n7. Forsake not the semi-colon, ellipse, and the em-dash as<br \/>\nacceptable punctuation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n8. Allowing thy character to doeth a thing doest not prove<br \/>\nthat thy character should do this thing. Thy character<br \/>\nmust have motivation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n9. Thou shalt first see that thou hast punctuated thy<br \/>\nmanuscript correctly before bearing false witness that thy critique partner or<br \/>\neditor lieth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n10. Thou shalt forsake repetitive dialog tags and repeated -ly<br \/>\nadverbs.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Commandments of Writing 1. When thou knowest not the spelling of a word, thou shalt look it up. 2. Thou shalt edit each manuscript before submitting. Yea verily, thou shalt put chapter ten before chapter eleven. 3. Before thou speakest ill of the comments of thy critique partner or thy editor, thou shalt remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}