{"id":21730,"date":"2013-08-10T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21730"},"modified":"2013-08-03T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T06:42:23","slug":"fourth-final-book-quote-for-saturday-from-ursula-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/10\/fourth-final-book-quote-for-saturday-from-ursula-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth &#038; Final Book Quote For Saturday From Ursula Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The chief duty of a narrative sentence is to lead to the next sentence &#8230; <\/em>[because]<em> the basic function of the narrative sentence is to keep the story going and keep the reader going with it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Ursula Le Guin, <strong>Steering The Craft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>What can I say, except &#8220;Hear, hear!&#8221; and &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; and \/or any number of other expressions of authorly enthusiasm and approval. Whenever I am tempted to overwrite (the temptation arising out of my love affair with language and words), i.e. at least every other sentence, this dictum brings me back to terra firma.<\/p>\n<p>As for this being the fourth and final quote&#8212;well, I could go on forever, but I hope I&#8217;ve given you sufficient flavour over the past four Saturdays, that you&#8217;ll feel compelled to seek out <strong>Steering the Craft<\/strong> for yourself. Honestly, whether you are a writer or aspiring writer yourself, or just love reading about the art and craft, I don&#8217;t think you will be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The chief duty of a narrative sentence is to lead to the next sentence &#8230; [because] the basic function of the narrative sentence is to keep the story going and keep the reader going with it.&#8221; ~ Ursula Le Guin, Steering The Craft \u2014 What can I say, except &#8220;Hear, hear!&#8221; and &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; and \/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21737,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions\/21737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}