{"id":120160,"date":"2016-01-02T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/02\/heres-the-thing-about-being-a-writer-or-a\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:04:39","slug":"heres-the-thing-about-being-a-writer-or-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/02\/heres-the-thing-about-being-a-writer-or-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing about being a writer, or a musician, or an artist, or any sort of creative person. The ones who make it are the ones who make themselves do it. They\u2019re the ones who practice even when it seems like they aren\u2019t getting any better. They\u2019re the ones who open up their work-in-progress when their friends are going out hey-are-you-coming-with-us \u2014 even if they know that this novel is not the one that will be good enough to get published, because they know that practice is the only way to get to the one that will be good enough to be published. They\u2019re the ones who send out query letters and hear no and they send out more query letters and they hear no again and they send out query letters and they hear no again. They\u2019re the ones that hear no as not yet and nothing is ever a failure, it\u2019s only a complicating plot point in the arc of their life. They\u2019re the ones who realize that there\u2019s no point tricking your way into publication, because the point is to write something other people fall in love with; that\u2019s what being a successful storyteller is. They\u2019re the ones who are hungry for it. No, they\u2019re the ones who are starving for it.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re a little unhinged.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else is everyone else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Stiefvater<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/annabethisterrified.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">annabethisterrified<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing about being a writer, or a musician, or an artist, or any sort of creative person. The ones who make it are the ones who make themselves do it. They\u2019re the ones who practice even when it seems like they aren\u2019t getting any better. They\u2019re the ones who open up their work-in-progress &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/02\/heres-the-thing-about-being-a-writer-or-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,678,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}