{"id":29520,"date":"2015-07-05T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29520"},"modified":"2015-06-28T21:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T09:41:05","slug":"a-writing-quote-for-sunday-from-toni-morrison-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/05\/a-writing-quote-for-sunday-from-toni-morrison-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote For Sunday, From Toni Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It is important to know when you are fretting it; when you are fretting it because it is not working, it needs to be scrapped.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Toni Morrison<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Usually, I feature these quotes because I am in 100% agreement with the sentiment being expressed. With this one, though, I am somewhat less certain, because at what point does one decide that something that is not working needs to be scrapped?<\/p>\n<p>From my own point of view, sometimes when a piece of writing appears not to be working, all that means is that I have to work harder, writing and throwing away until I finally hit the right story track through the creative jungle. So I feel it&#8217;s important to distinguish between a particular line of approach to a story, that may well need to be dispensed with in favour of another, and scrapping the story altogether&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is important to know when you are fretting it; when you are fretting it because it is not working, it needs to be scrapped.&#8221; ~ Toni Morrison &#8212; Usually, I feature these quotes because I am in 100% agreement with the sentiment being expressed. With this one, though, I am somewhat less certain, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29521,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29520\/revisions\/29521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}