{"id":726,"date":"2014-01-27T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackcampbelljr.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2014-01-27T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:30:15","slug":"the-evolution-of-an-idea-murphs-law-is-up-at-the-confabulator-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/27\/the-evolution-of-an-idea-murphs-law-is-up-at-the-confabulator-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of an Idea: Murph&#8217;s Law is up at The Confabulator Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions for writers is where they get their ideas and how they develop them. I think every writer does it a bit differently. The way I write isn&#8217;t the way my local colleagues write. I improvise a lot at the keyboard. Other writers outline vigorously and essentially know the story before they write it. This week, I decided to explain the process I used to write &#8220;Murph&#8217;s Law,&#8221; which appeared at The Confabulator Cafe a month ago. If you liked the story or just want to know how I work, head on over and check it out. There is also a note about Fairfax, the fictional rural setting for several of my stories, which turned out not to be as fictional as I thought.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2014\/01\/evolution-idea-murphs-law\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions for writers is where they get their ideas and how they develop them. I think every writer does it a bit differently. The way I write isn&#8217;t the way my local colleagues write. I improvise a lot at the keyboard. Other writers outline vigorously and essentially know the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[85,232,281],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-confabulator-cafe","tag-murphs-law","tag-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackcampbelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}