{"id":91142,"date":"2016-07-25T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/25\/purge-that-urge-rhackathon-cooliogirl101\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:56:28","slug":"purge-that-urge-rhackathon-cooliogirl101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/25\/purge-that-urge-rhackathon-cooliogirl101\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/purge-that-urge-rhackathon.tumblr.com\/post\/146936494780\" target=\"_blank\">purge-that-urge-rhackathon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cooliogirl101.tumblr.com\/post\/142577845251\" target=\"_blank\">cooliogirl101<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Honestly, ever since becoming a fanfic writer myself I\u2019ve become like 500% more understanding and patient about other authors\u2019 update schedules. An author takes 6+ months to post their next chapter? Yeah, totally get that real life can get in the way. An author abandons a fic? Disappointing, but it it happens- sometimes inspiration for a story just dies. An author apologizes about taking so long to post a 10k word chapter? Dude, that\u2019s like 18-20 pages on Word single-spaced. It takes me at least a week to write an essay for school <i>a quarter<\/i> the length of that, and that\u2019s with a deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably the most important thing writing fanfic has taught me, tbh. How to fully appreciate the hard work someone else has put into their story. How important the role of the audience is to an author. And that no matter what, you are <i>never<\/i> entitled to demand more of a story that you are getting for <i>free.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/3df298c101c4b93aa02a198e18e9ddac\/tumblr_npsdvu0uHz1sr39gto1_r2_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>purge-that-urge-rhackathon: cooliogirl101: Honestly, ever since becoming a fanfic writer myself I\u2019ve become like 500% more understanding and patient about other authors\u2019 update schedules. An author takes 6+ months to post their next chapter? Yeah, totally get that real life can get in the way. An author abandons a fic? Disappointing, but it it happens- sometimes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/25\/purge-that-urge-rhackathon-cooliogirl101\/\" 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":[247,11535,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91142"}],"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=91142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}