{"id":185,"date":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T02:05:18","slug":"week-1-raw-prompt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/week-1-raw-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 RAW prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37932\/2024\/12\/Week-1-Benji-RAW-Prompt.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Week-1-Benji-RAW-Prompt<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the first &#8220;RAW prompt&#8221; that I responded to in the first week of this class. Initially, my main concerns were becoming a better sentence writer and to hone the smaller parts of writing. Although I do think that my sentences improved, this is not what I ended up focusing on in this class. When I was younger I once heard a writer say something along the lines of, &#8220;a book is like a house, and the bricks are the sentences, if you don&#8217;t have good sentences, you cannot have a good house.&#8221; As a kid, I took this very seriously, but now that I am older I disagree. Books are nothing like houses, they are a lot like books. I love authors that write run-on-sentences (Stephen King) and I love authors that write arguably <em>overly<\/em>-succinct sentences (Cormac McCarthy). Neither of these are <em>wrong<\/em>, and this class helped me realize that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the first &#8220;RAW prompt&#8221; that I responded to in the first week of this class. Initially, my main concerns were becoming a better sentence writer and to hone the smaller parts of writing. Although I do think that my sentences improved, this is not what I ended up focusing on in this class. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/week-1-raw-prompt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 1 RAW prompt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30187,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sweeneyportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}