{"id":207,"date":"2011-09-19T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/if-you-can-talk-you-can-write\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:12:12","slug":"if-you-can-talk-you-can-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/if-you-can-talk-you-can-write\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can Talk, You Can Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was rolling along in my t<em>rusty<\/em> wagon the other day, brainstorming.<\/p>\n<p>Well, &#8220;brainstorming&#8221; makes my thought process sound more organized than it actually is. When I&#8217;m really keyed up about an idea &#8211; and I&#8217;m alone &#8211; I tend to get a little carried away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking lip movement here. Maybe &#8211; <em>maybe<\/em> &#8211; sound effects. Kind of like watching a four year old playing with Lego except a 35 year old sitting at a red light making explosion sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized something. I&#8217;ve been going astray recently. I&#8217;ve been writing one way. The right way. The correct way. Fifty pages into a script that calls for action and drama and pizazz and I&#8217;m writing it like a recipe book. It was all wrong. As soon as I got the wagon home I started re-writing.<\/p>\n<p>This time I wrote it as if I was in the car. At that red light. Making the sound effects.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck, that works so much better. That&#8217;s fun writing. And fun reading. That&#8217;s energy. That&#8217;s pizazz.<\/p>\n<p>People who have a hard time with it, have often said to me &#8220;I can&#8217;t write. How do you write?&#8221; And I&#8217;ve always told them if you can talk, you can write. And I always meant it. But I guess it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve taken that advice myself. No more.<\/p>\n<p>Psssshhhhhhoooooo&#8230; Prrrgggghhhh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you sound like an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}