{"id":3521,"date":"2011-06-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2011-06-25T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T15:00:27","slug":"how-to-write-a-book-by-people-who-have-written-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/how-to-write-a-book-by-people-who-have-written-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write a book, by people who have written a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly for &quot;if I ever need to find this article again&quot;, but also partly as inspiration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But now comes the hard part. It\u2019s one thing to work up a 4000-word magazine feature and another to sit down and write a 100,000-word book&#8230; I\u2019ve chosen to deal with my anxiety by tapping into the wisdom of the hive mind. I recently sent email to the authors in my social network and asked them, \u201cWhat do you wish you\u2019d known about the process of writing a book that you didn\u2019t know before you did it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly for &quot;if I ever need to find this article again&quot;, but also partly as inspiration. But now comes the hard part. It\u2019s one thing to work up a 4000-word magazine feature and another to sit down and write a 100,000-word book&#8230; I\u2019ve chosen to deal with my anxiety by tapping into the wisdom of the hive mind. I recently sent email to the authors in my social network and asked them, \u201cWhat do you wish you\u2019d known about the process of writing a book that you didn\u2019t know before you did it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[695,2347,593,2346],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-advice","tag-author","tag-book","tag-steve-silverman","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-UN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}