{"id":2873,"date":"2015-06-13T22:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Damon-Knight-had-some-training-as-a-visual-artist"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:40:45","slug":"damon-knight-had-some-training-as-a-visual-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/13\/damon-knight-had-some-training-as-a-visual-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Knight had some training as a visual artist."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damon Knight had some training as a visual artist. In <em>Creating Short Fiction<\/em>, he talks about how learning to be an artist involves learning how to perceive the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He suggests some exercises for writers, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; People-watch. Describe someone &#8211; not superficially, like a police report, in a way that would describe a thousand people, but with insight, in a way that describes only that person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Look at something alive until you feel you know something about it that you didn&#8217;t know before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Blindfold yourself and listen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Think of vivid moments in your life that stand out in your memory, and try to understand why they stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Learn to pay attention to and accept your own feelings, observe other people for signs of their feelings, and imagine what it&#8217;s like to be them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Collaborate with your unconscious (which he calls &#8220;Fred&#8221;). Present Fred with interesting challenges and listen for the response. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Damon Knight had some training as a visual artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}