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When writing, I like making things up.<\/p>\nWhen writing, I like making things up.<\/p>\n
While you’d be hard pressed to find any lengthy autobiographic passages in my fiction, I do<\/em> love taking a small, real thing and running with it until it’s nothing like what it was based on.<\/p>\n Here’s an example:<\/p>\n I had a friend who never knocked on my front door when he came over — he always knocked on windows. Even if he knew I was in the living room of an old house where I once lived, he’d knock on the windows beside the front door to get my attention.<\/p>\n One day he came to my window saying, “Dude! I was in Southlake awhile ago, and out in this field were two Great Danes. I need your pickup truck so I can go get them!”<\/p>\n This small, real exchange ended up as a story not at all like what really happened. (I told my friend I was tired and wasn’t leaving the house.)<\/p>\n This is the story. (I’m currently having issues with my main Web site — here’s a PDF of the story<\/a>, and here’s a EPUB file of the story<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Today’s Writing Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n Take something tiny and blow it up into something else.<\/p>\n No autobiography; just running with a snippet of the real world until it no longer resembles what it’s based on.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s Writing Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n How can jackhammers, barking dogs, and pizza day at work help you write a short story?<\/p>\n I’ll tell you tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When writing, I like making things up. While you’d be hard pressed to find any lengthy autobiographic passages in my fiction, I do love taking a small, real thing and running with it until it’s nothing like what it was based on. Here’s an example: I had a friend who never knocked on my front […]<\/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":[3,27,59],"tags":[65,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}