{"id":77,"date":"2012-04-02T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-08-15T03:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T03:05:22","slug":"i-tell-aspiring-writers-that-they-should-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/i-tell-aspiring-writers-that-they-should-write\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tell aspiring writers that they should write. It\u2019s the only real advice I have. If you think you have talent, then write. You\u2019ll find out if you\u2019re any good. And you\u2019ll also find out that it takes a lot more than just talent to be a writer. You have to be willing to write on the days you don\u2019t feel like writing, for a start. And you have to learn to finish things, and to start the next thing.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gaiman makes a living saying excellent things in excellent ways. This is just the latest example of his advice that I will attempt to take to heart in an effort to finally become a published author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tell aspiring writers that they should write. It\u2019s the only real advice I have. If you think you have talent, then write. You\u2019ll find out if you\u2019re any good. And you\u2019ll also find out that it takes a lot more than just talent to be a writer. You have to be willing to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[111,153,44],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-writing","tag-author","tag-good-advice","tag-neil-gaiman","post_format-post-format-quote","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}