{"id":245,"date":"2012-08-20T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-08-18T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T20:31:17","slug":"bookmark-monday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bring you tips on dealing with rejection! Among\u00c2\u00a0other things included in an interview with Jane Friedman. Also, why you should keep your day job as a writer. It might be more helpful than you think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreahurst.com\/blog\/authornomics-interview-with-jane-friedman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Authornomics Interview with Jane Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane Friedman is web editor of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, and the former publisher of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Digest<\/em>. In this short interview she shares some tips on rejection, how to have a successful writing career,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For improving your chances: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t submit your work until it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready. Hopefully you know yourself and your work well enough that you can honestly know when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time. If you really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, you have nothing to lose by waiting. I really mean that, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll repeat it again: You have nothing to lose by waiting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachellegardner.com\/2012\/08\/how-your-day-job-can-help-your-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Your Day Job Can Help Your Writing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How you ever thought about how much your day job can affect your writing? It could be more helpful than you think!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writing can be isolating. Even if you write in a coffee shop, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a lot of personal interaction going on. Yet, what makes a compelling character? Connection. We all want to write characters so compelling, so real our readers are captivated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bring you tips on dealing with rejection! Among\u00c2\u00a0other things included in an interview with Jane Friedman. Also, why you should keep your day job as a writer. It might be more helpful than you think&#8230; Authornomics Interview with Jane Friedman Jane Friedman is web editor of the\u00c2\u00a0Virginia Quarterly Review, and the former publisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[113,96,114,80,105,17,10,15],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andrea-hurst","tag-articles-2","tag-jane-friedman","tag-monday","tag-rachelle-gardner","tag-story-development-2","tag-styles","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}