by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
As simple as it seems, I had to learn the zero-th law of fiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n I like to write fiction short stories. It’s fun for me. I have written 70 or so stories and have them on Smashwords <\/a>which makes them available on many other outlets such as Barnes and Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n I often struggled when I first started writing short stories. I wrote from my life. I wrote about things that I had done and that had happened to me. The stories were boring, so I tried to improve on them.<\/p>\n But, improving on reality is lying. And I am not a liar.<\/p>\n Duh! Here comes the zero-th law of fiction<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Fiction is not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And everyone knows that. I, however, had trouble with the zero-th law. It took quite a bit of emotional energy for me to accept it. I could stretch the truth. I could make stories from my life end in ways I wish they had. I could make stories from my life end in terrible ways, far worse than they had. This is fiction.<\/p>\n Duh!<\/p>\n Sometimes it is amazing what blocks writers from writing better.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips As simple as it seems, I had to learn the zero-th law of fiction. I like to write fiction short stories. It’s fun for me. I have written 70 or so stories and have them on Smashwords which makes them available on many other outlets such as Barnes and Noble. I often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}