{"id":13820,"date":"2011-08-30T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/08\/30\/13820.html"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:11:40","slug":"writing-advice-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/08\/30\/writing-advice-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing advice of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning's net-browsing brings two sources of advice for writers (and, probably, other creators) that I thought were worth linking to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Cassie Alexander has been posting a series of blog entries collectively titled <a href=\"http:\/\/cassiealexander.com\/tag\/how-to-write-a-book-in-six-months\/\">How to Write a Book in Six Months<\/a>. (It's an ongoing series; that page lists everything posted so far under that heading, with the oldest entry at the end of the page and the newest at the top.) I thought her entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/cassiealexander.com\/2011\/08\/how-to-write-a-book-in-six-months-shutting-down-in-a-good-way\/\">protecting your time<\/a> was particularly interesting, though as she explicitly says at the beginning, not for everyone.<\/li>\n  <li>The song &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9DDdM66_nSI\">Die Vampire Die<\/a>&rdquo; from the musical <cite>[title of show]<\/cite>. Definitely NSFW. Scroll down from video to see lyrics. I find a couple bits annoying (such as a touch of fatphobia in the middle), but overall a fun song, and may be inspirational for people struggling with creative work. (Via a certain MG author who would probably not want her name publicly linked to this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s net-browsing brings two sources of advice for writers (and, probably, other creators) that I thought were worth linking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}