{"id":82,"date":"2009-04-25T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T09:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:40:17","slug":"stories-are-easy-sentences-are-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Stories are easy, sentences are hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That, roughly, was what James Patterson said on last night&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00jzx63\">The Verb<\/a>, Ian McMillan&#8217;s always entertaining discourse on matters literary on BBC Radio 3. Fortunately I had timed the washing up to catch Patterson&#8217;s thoughts on writing, though this also meant I couldn&#8217;t capture his exact words because my hands were in the sink. Still, if phenomenally successful &#8216;commercial writer&#8217; (as he modestly described himself) finds sentence-level work harder than creating block-buster plots, where does that leave all the carefully-structured word, sentence and text level work in the literacy strategies? <\/p>\n<p>Just where they were, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>(And, yes, I could listen again online to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00jzx63\">The Verb<\/a> to discover Patterson&#8217;s exact words &#8211; but hey, sentences are hard and it&#8217;s easier to tell you to that yourselves. You&#8217;ll enjoy it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That, roughly, was what James Patterson said on last night&#8217;s edition of The Verb, Ian McMillan&#8217;s always entertaining discourse on matters literary on BBC Radio 3. Fortunately I had timed the washing up to catch Patterson&#8217;s thoughts on writing, though this also meant I couldn&#8217;t capture his exact words because my hands were in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=82\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stories are easy, sentences are hard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-words","tag-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}