{"id":688,"date":"2008-08-25T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-08-25T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T15:53:01","slug":"literary-reflections-james-a-michener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2008\/08\/25\/literary-reflections-james-a-michener\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary reflections. James A. Michener."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: left; display: block;\">\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG\"><img style=\"border: medium none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/dc\/James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG\/202px-James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG\" alt=\"Author James Albert Michener attends an observ...\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:James_Albert_Michener_%C2%B7_DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Literary reflections. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_A._Michener');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James A. Michener\" rel=\"wikipedia\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_A._Michener\">James A. Michener<\/a>.\u00a0 1993. ISBN 0812550528.\u00a0 Mitchener on Mitchener, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Mitchell');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Margaret Mitchell\" rel=\"wikipedia\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Mitchell\">Margaret Mitchell<\/a>, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Hemingway');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ernest Hemingway\" rel=\"wikipedia\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Hemingway\">Ernest Hemingway<\/a> <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001986');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Truman Capote\" rel=\"imdb\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001986\">Truman Capote<\/a> &amp; others.\u00a0\u00a0 I am slowly building my collection of writer&#8217;s tools.\u00a0\u00a0 This one is a loosely organized set of insightful essays showing Mitchener&#8217;s growth as a reader and writer.\u00a0 His life experiences are shown, but only briefly (giving me a desire to know more) He gives us some of his most useful writing tools and work attitudes. His thoughts on\u00a0 writers that had great impact on him was what I found\u00a0 revealing. Some writers I had read, but others I had not. He has caused me to want to read those ones too. \u00a0 I am learning just how much homework these successful writers put into becoming skilled craftsmen.\u00a0\u00a0 This is an easy delightful read, well worth the few hours required (definitely not one of his &#8220;big&#8221; books).\u00a0 Unexpected treats are his poems sprinkled throughout.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/15\/short.stories\/index.html?eref=rss_latest');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/15\/short.stories\/index.html?eref=rss_latest\">Six of the best: CNN readers tell us their stories<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2007\/11\/16\/bowriter116.xml');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2007\/11\/16\/bowriter116.xml\">A writer&#8217;s year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/64acc2dd-f6f5-4906-8788-73477f74dcfd\/');\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"  href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/64acc2dd-f6f5-4906-8788-73477f74dcfd\/\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_b.png?x-id=64acc2dd-f6f5-4906-8788-73477f74dcfd\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mitchener on Mitchener, Margaret Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway Truman Capote &#038; others.   I am slowly building my collection of writer&#8217;s tools.   This one is a loosely organized set of insightful essays showing Mitchener&#8217;s growth as a reader and writer.  His life experiences are shown, but only briefly (giving me a desire to know more) He gives us some of his most useful writing tools and work attitudes. His thoughts on  writers that had great impact on him was what I found  revealing. Some writers I had read, but others I had not. He has caused me to want to read those ones too.   I am learning just how much homework these successful writers put into becoming skilled craftsmen.   This is an easy delightful read, well worth the few hours required (definitely not one of his &#8220;big&#8221; books).  Unexpected treats are his poems sprinkled throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[101,102,42,104,100,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}