{"id":1508,"date":"2014-01-31T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:13:14","slug":"day-337-prompt-opening-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/day-337-prompt-opening-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 337 &#8211; Prompt: Opening Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1509\" src=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1243-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1243\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1243-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1243-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have this book called the Writer&#8217;s Block that is full of little jumpstarts to writing or creativity. Today&#8217;s is to go through your favourite book and look at its first line and try to describe why that first line does or doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t seem to have a favourite book anymore. I had them when I was younger, but I generally like everything I read these days, because most of my books are gifts from people who put some thought into it. But I&#8217;m not reading that many books.<\/p>\n<p>I still read voraciously, but it&#8217;s mostly the news, information, education, entertainment or opinion pieces.<\/p>\n<p>I engage with fiction in the form of comics and audiobooks in the car, for the most part. And if I do read a novel, it&#8217;s in ebook form. I&#8217;ve kept all my textbooks but my fiction left a box at a time, moving too often in my 20s.<\/p>\n<p>But a book that I would call out as my favourite? Not really. Reading is an information channel now &#8211; my imagination seems to be more audio\/visual. I don&#8217;t feel like my imagination is limited by this transition.<\/p>\n<p>But would you? I dunno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this book called the Writer&#8217;s Block that is full of little jumpstarts to writing or creativity. Today&#8217;s is to go through your favourite book and look at its first line and try to describe why that first line does or doesn&#8217;t work. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t seem to have a favourite book anymore. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,1058,636,1059,1036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}