{"id":2849,"date":"2015-07-12T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Six-ways-to-think-about-style"},"modified":"2015-07-12T03:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:59:16","slug":"six-ways-to-think-about-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/six-ways-to-think-about-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Six ways to think about style:"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Six ways to think about style:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Variety (of sentence structure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Fluency. Nothing must interrupt the flow by making the reader stumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Consecutiveness. One thing must lead on to the next, so that the reader has no place to stop and bail out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Precision. Use words to mean what they mean, and not something else. &#8220;If you have only a vague idea of the difference between one word and another, you are like a carpenter who has only a vague idea of the difference between a screwdriver and a corkscrew.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Clarity&#8211;both simplicity and avoiding vague references. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Damon Knight, <em>Creating Short Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#shortfiction<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Six ways to think about style:<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/six-ways-to-think-about-style\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94,88],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}