{"id":1473,"date":"2011-04-12T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-04-12T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:00:38","slug":"on-writing-mike-mignola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/on-writing-mike-mignola\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing:  Mike Mignola"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For me, making up stories is a little like building furniture, but with twelfth-century tools and only the vaguest idea what I&#8217;m trying to build.  There&#8217;s a lot of grunting and banging, a lot of hammering on square pegs to get them to fit into round holes.  It&#8217;s fun and I love it, but, usually, it&#8217;s a lot of hard work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from <b>Mike Mignola<\/b>&#8216;s afterword to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bureau_for_Paranormal_Research_and_Defense\" target=\"_blank\">BPRD<\/a>: The Black Flame<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, making up stories is a little like building furniture, but with twelfth-century tools and only the vaguest idea what I&#8217;m trying to build. There&#8217;s a lot of grunting and banging, a lot of hammering on square pegs to get them to fit into round holes. It&#8217;s fun and I love it, but, usually, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/on-writing-mike-mignola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Writing:  Mike Mignola&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[190,191],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-scriptwriting","tag-bprd","tag-mike-mignola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}