{"id":785,"date":"2011-01-10T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:25:04","slug":"writing-readable-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/writing-readable-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Readable Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a great article by Scott Berkun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2010\/how-to-write-1000-words\/\">How to write 1000 words<\/a>.  He has a lot to say about creativity, about allowing ideas to flow and multiply.  He also spends about a paragraph to tell us that &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; is where real writing begins.  My favorite part comes at the very end, where he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs I reread I refine like a river into a canyon, chipping away each time at little pieces, polishing the bits that hold up, and pushing away the ones that don\u2019t. And when I can read through the whole piece without much changing I know I\u2019m almost done.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a comforting idea to me, because it is exactly how I write.  It&#8217;s the writing technique that got me through college.  It&#8217;s rapid development in English.  I&#8217;ve never tried to write a book, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve ever thought I&#8217;m on the right track!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t write code this way&#8230; in code, one might consider this debugger-oriented coding.  But I think this creativity and speed is something that very writable languages strive for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a great article by Scott Berkun: How to write 1000 words. He has a lot to say about creativity, about allowing ideas to flow and multiply. He also spends about a paragraph to tell us that &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; is where real writing begins. My favorite part comes at the very end, where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}