{"id":3039,"date":"2019-02-18T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:09:33","slug":"why-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/professional-life\/why-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Write."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">&#8230;Because I have to.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a compulsion.&nbsp; And, no, I&#8217;m not an obsessive-compulsive personality.&nbsp; I am driven, yes.&nbsp; I am passionate.&nbsp; I am labelled a &#8216;high achiever&#8217;, though, when measured against the achievements others I know and what they accomplish in the same amount of time, I&#8217;m a slacker by comparison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Someone asked me what genres I actually prefer to write.&nbsp; I had to think about that, because, I love all the stories I write.&nbsp; I love the characters, I love their stories.&nbsp; But, when push comes to shove, when it comes to &#8216;genre&#8217;, I love writing science fiction.&nbsp; As usual, though, I don&#8217;t write formula.&nbsp; The aliens aren&#8217;t the bad guys.&nbsp; Humans aren&#8217;t the heros.&nbsp; There aren&#8217;t any bad guys and good guys, no good against evil.&nbsp; Because that&#8217;s not really how reality works.&nbsp; It&#8217;s all about perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"max-width:1240px;max-height:450px;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tqECce\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GathDoubleVolumeSlider_1240x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Gathering of Rebels, a story so big it took 2 books to tell it.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3040\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Because I have to.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a compulsion.&nbsp; And, no, I&#8217;m not an obsessive-compulsive personality.&nbsp; I am driven, yes.&nbsp; I am passionate.&nbsp; I am labelled a &#8216;high achiever&#8217;, though, when measured against the achievements others I know and what they accomplish in the same amount of time, I&#8217;m a slacker by comparison. Someone asked me what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,194,8],"tags":[425,426,427,428,429,431,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}