{"id":283839,"date":"2018-09-17T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/17\/ttime42-writing-is-the-only-hobby-where-people\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:54:14","slug":"ttime42-writing-is-the-only-hobby-where-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/17\/ttime42-writing-is-the-only-hobby-where-people\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ttime42.tumblr.com\/post\/177957589981\/writing-is-the-only-hobby-where-people-consider\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ttime42<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWriting is the only hobby where people consider themselves a failure at it if they don\u2019t become professional. My advice to writers\u2013 I\u2019ve known a lot of writers who have that \u201cI\u2019m gonna write this book, and I\u2019m gonna sell it, and I\u2019m gonna be rich and famous\u201d [attitude]. If they wrote it and sold it and were rich and famous, they would hit their base expectations and be merely satisfied. And instead, if they miss that, they are angry, bitter, and they grow increasingly twisted up inside, psychologically, and they\u2019re really unhappy. Do you like it? Is it fun? Do you enjoy it? If you enjoy it, every time you write, you have completed something that has paid you off.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Rothfuss, The Wednesday Club, 07\/11\/2018 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mudkippy.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">mudkippy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ttime42: \u201cWriting is the only hobby where people consider themselves a failure at it if they don\u2019t become professional. My advice to writers\u2013 I\u2019ve known a lot of writers who have that \u201cI\u2019m gonna write this book, and I\u2019m gonna sell it, and I\u2019m gonna be rich and famous\u201d [attitude]. If they wrote it and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/17\/ttime42-writing-is-the-only-hobby-where-people\/\" 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":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283839"}],"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=283839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}