{"id":47317,"date":"2016-12-11T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=47317"},"modified":"2017-02-26T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T07:10:52","slug":"impose-narrative-shape-on-an-unwieldy-mass-of-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/impose-narrative-shape-on-an-unwieldy-mass-of-material\/","title":{"rendered":"impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ik heb mensen nodig die me geruststellen. William Zinsser doet dat door te schrijven dat schrijven toch mogelijk is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whenever I embark on a story so overloaded with good material I despair of ever getting to the end\u2014of covering all the ground I know I\u2019ll need to cover to tell the story right. In my gloom it helps me to remember two things. One is that writing is linear and sequential. If sentence B logically follows sentence A, and if sentence C logically follows sentence B, I\u2019ll eventually get to sentence Z. I also try to remember that the reader should be given only as much information as he needs and not one word more. Anything else is a self-indulgence.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Teveel feiten doodt het avontuur, het verhaal.<\/p>\n<p>Streven naar resonantie. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What resounds is not merely things said earlier but common knowledge and experience that everyone can relate to.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Meerstemmig wikipedia:<br \/>\n&#8211; clarity<br \/>\n&#8211; warmth<br \/>\n&#8211; humanity<br \/>\n&#8211; touch of humour<br \/>\n&#8211; resonance (common knowledge and experience)<\/p>\n<p>En ja, het tegendeel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Perhaps in no other line of work is delayed gratification so delayed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>De mythe van Sisyphus veroordeelt Sisyphys tot het eindeloos berg op duwen van een rotsblok omdat het steeds weer naar beneden rolt, een schier onmogelijke taak. Hij kan daarbij altijd denken: leuk voor de steen, die heeft eeuwig plezier.<\/p>\n<p><small>Writing to learn, William Zinsser<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ik heb mensen nodig die me geruststellen. William Zinsser doet dat door te schrijven dat schrijven toch mogelijk is. &#8216;Whenever I embark on a story so overloaded with good material I despair of ever getting to the end\u2014of covering all the ground I know I\u2019ll need to cover to tell the story right. In my<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/impose-narrative-shape-on-an-unwieldy-mass-of-material\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2007,122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47317"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48864,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47317\/revisions\/48864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}