{"id":255,"date":"2010-08-30T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-08-30T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:03:06","slug":"literary-quality-assurance-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Literary Quality Assurance Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little snippet from Richard Glover&#8217;s column in the weekend paper, which made me smile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bring back the typewriter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to write a long novel  using a typewriter. You&#8217;d have to pound away in a fog of Tipp-Ex and  carbon fumes. Occasionally people like Dylan Thomas would write  something really good and then lose the only copy when drunk in a New  York cab. Now anybody with a word processor and a creative writing  degree is pounding out 100,000 mediocre words on a five-book deal. A  typewriter was its own quality-assurance scheme: only those with  something to say could be bothered mastering such cumbersome technology.  We had fewer, shorter and better books. Don&#8217;t just bring back the  typewriter, make it mandatory. (August 14, 2010. <em>SMH Spectrum<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nabourke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/5063732-lg.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"5063732-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nabourke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/5063732-lg.jpg?resize=250%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little snippet from Richard Glover&#8217;s column in the weekend paper, which made me smile: Bring back the typewriter It was difficult to write a long novel using a typewriter. You&#8217;d have to pound away in a fog of Tipp-Ex and carbon fumes. Occasionally people like Dylan Thomas would write something really good and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,167],"tags":[245,246],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-reading","category-on-writing","tag-richard-glover","tag-typewriter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LH1G-47","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}