{"id":2335,"date":"2012-09-27T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerokidz.com\/ideas\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2014-06-17T23:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:16:02","slug":"type-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Type it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">On Finding Fiction Late In Life.<\/p>\n<p><cite>By Donald Ray Pollock, interviewed at\u00a0NPR<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/17\/158998083\/donald-ray-pollock-on-finding-fiction-late-in-life\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/08\/17\/158998083\/donald-ray-pollock-on-finding-fiction-late-in-life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">When he first started writing, Pollock says he typed out a story by another famous writer at least once a week in order to learn how to put dialogue together and move from scene to scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Cheever, Hemingway, Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Richard Yates, Denis Johnson, and the list goes on and on,&#8221; he says. &#8220;If the story wasn&#8217;t overly long, I&#8217;d type it out. 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