{"id":1506,"date":"2006-05-02T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T04:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/05\/02\/writing-wrongs-a-survey\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:54","slug":"writing-wrongs-a-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/05\/02\/writing-wrongs-a-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Wrongs: A Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is worse? <\/p>\n<p>Writing a memoir which contains passages of events that never happened or exaggerates real events to make them more &#8220;interesting&#8221; (a la James Frey).<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarizing <strike>three<\/strike> four other novels when writing one&#8217;s own novel (a la Kaavya Viswanathan, who recycled text from the novels of Sophie Kinsella, Meg Talbot, Megan McCafferty, and Salman Rushdie).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your vote? The rationale for your choice is also welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is worse? Writing a memoir which contains passages of events that never happened or exaggerates real events to make them more &#8220;interesting&#8221; (a la James Frey). Plagiarizing three four other novels when writing one&#8217;s own novel (a la Kaavya Viswanathan, who recycled text from the novels of Sophie Kinsella, Meg Talbot, Megan McCafferty, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12289,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/12289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}