{"id":445,"date":"2010-08-16T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2010\/08\/16\/30-days-of-writing-15\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T05:58:00","slug":"30-days-of-writing-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2010\/08\/16\/30-days-of-writing-15\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Writing: #15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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15. Mid\u00adway ques\u00adtion! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether pro\u00adfes\u00adsional or not!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh God, I don’t even know.  Just to say I admire a writer does not necessarily mean I LIKE them or even READ them, right?  Well, believe it or not, there are definitely more writers I admire than necessarily like.  Writers, of course, like the classics in Greek and Rome, whoever the lucky snot who wrote Beowulf was (and I curse him), Lady Murasaki for being both an educated woman in medieval Japan AND wriiting the oldest (or one of)  novels in Japan, or even the world (may I reiterate that she was a woman?)  and virtually anyone else who is way more awesome than I will ever be. If it weren’t for writers to idolize, there would be nothing to aspire to.<\/p>\n

As for more…recent…writers I admire, that’s a harder one.  I admire writers who broke into markets and made something for themselves. But I doubt this is about the business aspect of admiration.  So, in terms of writing style, content, and general badassery, one of the first 1900s+ authors that come to mind for me is Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials<\/em>.  It’s one of the few (fantasy) series from my childhood that I still thoroughly enjoy and look to for inspiration, probably because it’s fantasy with religious conspiracy…you know, like Nagnomei…<\/em>which explains why I was attracted to it in the first place.  Pullman is able to make twists and turns that make me jealous.  He’s succinct (something I need to work on) and yet gets all the (fantastical) information across.  He’s also really pissing some organizations off that I would love to piss off as well.  The only thing I’m not jealous of is the movie…<\/p>\n

Tell me, fanciful readers, who do you admire? And most importantly…are they dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not an accurate rendering… 15. Mid\u00adway ques\u00adtion! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether pro\u00adfes\u00adsional or not! Oh God, I don’t even know.  Just to say I admire a writer does not necessarily mean I LIKE them or even READ them, right?  Well, believe it or not, there are definitely more writers… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153,276,352,268,245,353,227,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becoming-an-author","category-meme","category-murasaki-shikibu","category-nagnomei","category-other-authors","category-philip-pullman","category-process","category-question"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}