{"id":307,"date":"2007-07-12T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:20:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"13 Writing Tips by Chuck Palahniuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckpalahniuk.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, a friend and I walked around downtown Portland at Christmas. The big department stores: Meier and Frank\u2026 Fredrick and Nelson\u2026 Nordstroms\u2026 their big display windows each held a simple, pretty scene: a mannequin wearing clothes or a perfume bottle sitting in fake snow. But the windows at the J.J. Newberry&#8217;s store, damn, they were crammed with dolls and tinsel and spatulas and screwdriver sets and pillows, vacuum cleaners, plastic hangers, gerbils, silk flowers, candy &#8211; you get the point. Each of the hundreds of different objects was priced with a faded circle of red cardboard. And walking past, my friend, Laurie, took a long look and said, &#8220;Their window-dressing philosophy must be: &#8216;If the window doesn&#8217;t look quite right &#8211; put more in&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckpalahniuk.net\/workshops\/resource\/chuckessay.php\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s web site: Twenty years ago, a friend and I walked around downtown Portland at Christmas. The big department stores: Meier and Frank\u2026 Fredrick and Nelson\u2026 Nordstroms\u2026 their big display windows each held a simple, pretty scene: a mannequin wearing clothes or a perfume bottle sitting in fake snow. But the windows at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}