{"id":282,"date":"2015-05-13T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2015-05-13T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:30:03","slug":"want-to-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/want-to-write-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Write a Book? 10 Simple Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Write the book.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stop until you get to THE END.<\/li>\n<li>Join a writing group. (I belong to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCBWI<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Read books in the genre you want to write.<\/li>\n<li>Learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/plotwhisperer.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">plot.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Revise. This will require more sitting down and writing.<\/li>\n<li>If you get stuck, open a book you love and start reading. The way to get unstuck will appear.<\/li>\n<li>Revise some more.<\/li>\n<li>If you get stuck again, imagine what kind of music your character loves, and start a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pandora<\/a> station.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to be a great writer, never stop repeating steps one and two.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>(Psst, guess what? ARROWS is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arrows-Melissa-Gorzelanczyk\/dp\/0553510452\">pre-order!<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write the book. Don&#8217;t stop until you get to THE END. Join a writing group. (I belong to the SCBWI.) Read books in the genre you want to write. Learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-read-p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/want-to-write-a-book\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}