{"id":146,"date":"2004-03-25T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-03-25T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T22:32:23","slug":"reading-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Reading and writing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still in the process of applying for grad school. It&#8217;s been a slow process, but you have to have money to go to school. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally settled on a degree &#8211; MS in Technical Communications. Well, I&#8217;ve decided that sometime ago. Since I think I express myself clearly in writing and love technology, it seems a good fit for me.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out I have a major trait that is good for developing writing skills. That is, I&#8217;m a voracious reader. Last month I interviewed fantasy novelist Mitchell Graham for a web site (I&#8217;ll put the link to the interview up when it finally gets posted) said he believes the way to learn how to write is to study other readers. Another fantasy novelist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgerrmartin.com\/faq.html\">George R.R. Martin<\/a>, says the same thing.  <\/p>\n<p>Then today I was reading a book by Robert Bly, an expert on commercial writing, who said he loved to read as a child. He eventually became a technical writer. <\/p>\n<p>OK, I like to read, (I&#8217;m currently reading 5 different books) I like technology. It just dawned on me that I actually had a job as a technical writer while for a year when I worked at Merrill Lynch in a software support position. I really should do more of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still in the process of applying for grad school. It&#8217;s been a slow process, but you have to have money to go to school. I&#8217;ve finally settled on a degree &#8211; MS in Technical Communications. Well, I&#8217;ve decided that sometime ago. Since I think I express myself clearly in writing and love technology, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading and writing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}