{"id":41,"date":"2011-06-15T20:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/thinkerlog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-06-24T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:47:48","slug":"how-to-write-fiction-with-brainstormwfo-and-random-word-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/how-to-write-fiction-with-brainstormwfo-and-random-word-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write Fiction with BrainStormWFO and Random Word Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been having a recurring idle fancy of writing some fiction myself lately, but couldn\u2019t seem to put pen to paper. Figured I might not have the talent.<\/p>\n<p>Then on a whim I used a random word generator and started trying to sort the resulting output using the outliner at brainstormsw.com . That sort of seeded my brain with random associations that seeded my brain to give me an initial idea and to continue whenever I got stuck.<\/p>\n<p>The result was pretty derivative, just a rough outline of a random narrative, but some original ideas too. I figure if I keep doing that kind of thing regularly, I\u2019ll start building up raw material. With continual reworking, it might eventually morph into something decent.<\/p>\n<p>~JB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been having a recurring idle fancy of writing some fiction myself lately, but couldn\u2019t seem to put pen to paper. Figured I might not have the talent. Then on a whim I used a random word generator and started trying to sort the resulting output using the outliner at brainstormsw.com . That sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9me0d-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainstormsw.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}