{"id":7560,"date":"2018-10-08T03:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2018-10-08T03:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:24:03","slug":"jeanette-wintersons-10-tips-on-writing-brain-pickings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/08\/jeanette-wintersons-10-tips-on-writing-brain-pickings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanette Winterson\u2019s 10 Tips on Writing \u2013 Brain Pickings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Winterson offers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.<\/li>\n<li>Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether.<\/li>\n<li>Love what you do.<\/li>\n<li>Be honest with yourself. If you are no good, accept it. If the work you are \u00addoing is no good, accept it.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t hold on to poor work. If it was bad when it went in the drawer it will be just as bad when it comes out.<\/li>\n<li>Take no notice of anyone you don\u2019t respect.<\/li>\n<li>Take no notice of anyone with a \u00adgender agenda. A lot of men still think that women lack imagination of the fiery kind.<\/li>\n<li>Be ambitious for the work and not for the reward.<\/li>\n<li>Trust your creativity.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy this work!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2018\/09\/05\/jeanette-winterson-10-tips-on-writing\/?mc_cid=ac461089fd&amp;mc_eid=6de177c5db\">Jeanette Winterson\u2019s 10 Tips on Writing \u2013 Brain Pickings<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winterson offers: Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether. Love what you do. Be honest with yourself. If you are no good, accept &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/08\/jeanette-wintersons-10-tips-on-writing-brain-pickings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeanette Winterson\u2019s 10 Tips on Writing \u2013 Brain Pickings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}