{"id":910,"date":"2013-08-13T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-08-13T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:20:17","slug":"learning-life-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Learning Life Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenovelistgame.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-911\" alt=\"novelist_screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/novelist_screenshot-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/novelist_screenshot-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/novelist_screenshot.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All writers should be well-versed in computer games, obviously.\u00a0 Some computer games are simply <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=814\">useful for educating writers about great literature<\/a>, while others can be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=493\">hone the skills one needs as an aspiring author<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenovelistgame.com\/\">The Novelist<\/a>, a game due out soon, is certainly an example of the latter.\u00a0 It may not give a writer much practice in, you know, actually <em>writing<\/em>, but I&#8217;m a great believer in learning life skills from computer games, and every writer needs to know how to balance writing with all those other irritating demands on one&#8217;s time.\u00a0 I suppose it doesn&#8217;t hurt to practice being a ghost, either, just to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n<p>After all, what better way to learn how to balance the many demands on your time than putting in a few solid hours every day on a computer game?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All writers should be well-versed in computer games, obviously.\u00a0 Some computer games are simply useful for educating writers about great literature, while others can be used to hone the skills one needs as an aspiring author.\u00a0 The Novelist, a game due out soon, is certainly an example of the latter.\u00a0 It may not give a [&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-910","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\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}