{"id":513,"date":"2008-01-13T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-86\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T16:56:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Writing a novel is that sort of weird process where it seems for a long time you&#8217;re not making any progress at all.  It&#8217;s like trying to build a wall or dig a ditch across miles and miles, and you just do it, one word at a time.  You&#8217;re going to have the good writing days, and you&#8217;re going to have the bad writing days, and it&#8217;s going to take a year or two years, or more, to get to the end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neil Gaiman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fragile-Things-Short-Fictions-Wonders\/dp\/0061252026\/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1200243602&#038;sr=8-6\"><em>Fragil Things<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a novel is that sort of weird process where it seems for a long time you&#8217;re not making any progress at all. It&#8217;s like trying to build a wall or dig a ditch across miles and miles, and you &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-86\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}