{"id":711,"date":"2013-01-17T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=711"},"modified":"2013-01-17T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T23:46:31","slug":"i-was-all-set-until-i-got-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"I Was All Set Until I Got to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_714\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714\" alt=\"The only known photo of HP Lovecraft smiling\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HPLovecraft.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only known photo of HP Lovecraft smiling<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I continue my tradition of presenting advice on writing from famous writers, with <a href=\"http:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2013\/01\/02\/h-p-lovecrafts-advice-to-young-writers\/\">this essay by HP Lovecraft<\/a>.\u00a0 Obviously, I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=222\">soft spot for him<\/a>, and as we&#8217;ve established, he has a <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=543\">lean, mean writing style<\/a>.\u00a0 So I was pleased to see that I avoid all the errors he warns against, right up until I got to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Errors of taste, including vulgarisms, pompousness, repetition, vagueness, ambiguousness, colloquialism, bathos, bombast, pleonasm, tautology, harshness, mixed metaphor, and every sort of rhetorical awkwardness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m fairly certain that I avoid tautology and mixed metaphor, but I definitely engage in vulgarisms, vagueness, colloquialism, and bathos, and Lord, the pleonasm.\u00a0 The pleonasm!\u00a0 And I&#8217;m afraid I fall short on point 20, too.\u00a0 But really, this is some remarkably good advice.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find a writer more precise about the way he used language, I think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue my tradition of presenting advice on writing from famous writers, with this essay by HP Lovecraft.\u00a0 Obviously, I have a soft spot for him, and as we&#8217;ve established, he has a lean, mean writing style.\u00a0 So I was pleased to see that I avoid all the errors he warns against, right up until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}