{"id":2242,"date":"2010-11-29T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2010-12-02T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:49:18","slug":"monday-motivation-teetering-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/11\/29\/monday-motivation-teetering-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation: Teetering on the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano<\/em><\/a>, a character named Ed Finnerty expresses reservations about seeing a psychiatrist, saying:<\/p>\n

“He’d pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center…Big, undreamed-of things \u2014 the people on the edge see them first.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Writer’s Job<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It’s a writers job to write about people on the edge.<\/p>\n

It’s a writer’s job to take readers to the edge.<\/p>\n

It’s a writer’s job to sometimes be the ones teetering on the edge.<\/p>\n

If something you’re writing seems flat to you, take a character to the edge. Make other characters worry about the person and your readers will, too.<\/p>\n

If you’re feeling complacent in your writing, step out toward the edge yourself. You’ll never be a great writer if you don’t take chances. Sometimes it’s necessary to take a stroll outside your comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Great writing lives out on the edge — don’t be afraid to go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, a character named Ed Finnerty expresses reservations about seeing a psychiatrist, saying: “He’d pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}