{"id":29986,"date":"2016-09-19T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=29986"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:42:25","slug":"what-fiction-can-do-for-the-writer-and-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/09\/19\/what-fiction-can-do-for-the-writer-and-the-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fiction Can Do For The Writer And The Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power of fiction is a slippery, elusive thing &#8212; what it provides is not scientific, and often ephemeral. But stories matter. Stories shape the world. And sometimes we don&#8217;t necessarily realize how it&#8217;s shaping the world &#8212; or how it&#8217;s shaping us as the writer and those who read what we put out there. Sometimes I get emails, though, about how a book of mine affects people, and that&#8217;s what starts us ON THIS GLORIOUS STORIFIED JOURNEY.<\/p>\n<p>Let us begin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/how-fiction-lets-you-explore-yourself-on-differe\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/how-fiction-lets-you-explore-yourself-on-differe.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/how-fiction-lets-you-explore-yourself-on-differe\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;What Fiction Can Do For The Writer And Reader&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of fiction is a slippery, elusive thing &#8212; what it provides is not scientific, and often ephemeral. But stories matter. Stories shape the world. And sometimes we don&#8217;t necessarily realize how it&#8217;s shaping the world &#8212; or how it&#8217;s shaping us as the writer and those who read what we put out there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-7NE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29987,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29986\/revisions\/29987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}