{"id":7881,"date":"2017-04-02T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2020-12-30T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:44:53","slug":"facts-vs-fiction-not-so-different-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7881","title":{"rendered":"Facts vs Fiction &#8211; not so different after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog is on tour again this week. I&#8217;m over that the<a href=\"https:\/\/takefiveauthors.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/01\/you-might-not-want-to-read-my-latest-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Take Five Authors blog<\/a>, talking about writing. Not so unusual I know, but this time I am talking about writing fact &#8211; not fiction.<\/p>\n<p>In my day job, I work with computer systems&#8230; well, actually, I work with people helping them implement large computer systems in their workplace.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, I&#8217;ve been working for several months devising a training course, and writing a 400 page book to go along with it. It&#8217;s a technical manual.. but I discovered that writing a technical manual isn&#8217;t that different to writing a novel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The find out why &#8211; pop on over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/takefiveauthors.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/01\/you-might-not-want-to-read-my-latest-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take Five Authors blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7882\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/admin-book-cover-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/admin-book-cover-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/admin-book-cover-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/admin-book-cover.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glimpse at the cover of my new book. No &#8211; you can&#8217;t buy it on Amazon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog is on tour again this week. I&#8217;m over that the Take Five Authors blog, talking about writing. Not so unusual I know, but this time I am talking about writing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-237","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}