{"id":2355,"date":"2019-10-11T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:22:12","slug":"scholars-of-sturges-faith-wogan-20-on-the-writing-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/10\/11\/scholars-of-sturges-faith-wogan-20-on-the-writing-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars of Sturges: Faith Wogan (\u201920) on The Writing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to writing I have always done things differently than what teachers say to do&#8211;start with characters, plot, theme, et cetera. I don\u2019t always think before I start writing. Once I\u2019ve got the beginning, I go until I find the middle and the end. My mind flows so fast and I get lost in my own world it\u2019s like when I get absorbed in TV. It\u2019s such a fun experience because I don\u2019t realize how much I&#8217;ve typed until I get distracted. When I turn my head back, I look at the screen surprised that so much got done. It\u2019s crazy how a spark of a small idea can whip up a big dish of a story.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to writing I have always done things differently than what teachers say to do&#8211;start with characters, plot, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/10\/11\/scholars-of-sturges-faith-wogan-20-on-the-writing-life\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scholars-of-sturges"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}