{"id":236,"date":"2012-08-13T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2012-08-09T23:28:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:28:18","slug":"bookmark-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… Facebook… you got one? How do you think your book compares with Facebook? To switch topics, ever kept a journal? Not just a writing one with all your story notes in it, the kind that girls hide from her siblings and everyone assumes guys never have…<\/p>\n

Is Your Writing Better Than Facebook?<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you realize it or not, writers are competing with Facebook. Not directly, but how in the world do authors drag people off the internet and get them engrosed in a story?<\/p>\n

As writers, we all have a fierce, powerful, all-consuming competitor. You won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find it at a book store, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the few things you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find on Amazon. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 7 Benefits of Keeping a Daily Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

Even if you journal already, perhaps a few reasons may keep you doing it or, if you don’t already, maybe they’ll give you a good reason to start.<\/p>\n

The main thing is I am writing for\u00c2\u00a0myself<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0rather than an audience. I have found this tremendously liberating and deeply satisfying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So… Facebook… you got one? How do you think your book compares with Facebook? To switch topics, ever kept a journal? Not just a writing one with all your story notes in it, the kind that girls hide from her siblings and everyone assumes guys never have… Is Your Writing Better Than Facebook? Whether you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,5],"tags":[96,103,106,104,105,15],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-writing-in-general","tag-articles-2","tag-facebook","tag-journal","tag-michael-hyatt","tag-rachelle-gardner","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}