{"id":7079,"date":"2021-06-08T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2021-06-08T06:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:12:58","slug":"writings-as-fish-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/writings-as-fish-hooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings as Fish Hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7079\" data-postid=\"7079\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7079 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I was reading a collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Nietzsche\">Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>&#8216;s writing the other day and came across this statement from a preface to one of his books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom this moment forward, all my writings are fish hooks: perhaps I know how to fish as well as anyone?&#8211;If nothing was caught, I am not to blame. <em>There were no fish<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is much to consider in this statement, and I plan on using it in my next writing workshop as a discussion prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of questions enter my mind: what if there were fish, and nothing was caught? Are readers to be considered something to hook? How does a writer even know he has caught a reader? Does it matter to the reader who the fisherman is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an interesting notion to think of a piece of writing as a fish hook. It is an easy metaphor to apply and sometimes having a metaphor as a writer can inspire. Think archaeologist or chef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think with my next writing project, I might employ this fish hook metaphor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a collection of Friedrich Nietzsche&#8216;s writing the other day and came across this statement from a preface to one of his books: \u201cFrom this moment forward, all my writings are fish hooks: perhaps I know how to fish as well as anyone?&#8211;If nothing was caught, I am not to blame. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}