{"id":29868,"date":"2015-08-19T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29868"},"modified":"2015-08-16T18:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T06:29:22","slug":"questions-writers-get-asked-what-is-the-best-and-worst-part-of-being-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/questions-writers-get-asked-what-is-the-best-and-worst-part-of-being-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Writers Get Asked: What Is The Best &#8212; And Worst &#8212; Part Of Being  A Writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this a lot and I <em>think<\/em> the best part is that having had all of these stories and worlds and characters in my head, just about forever, committing to being a writer and actually <em>writing<\/em> them has given me the opportunity to not only share the wonder and delight, but also to connect, through my writing, with people throughout the world. How awesome is that?!<\/p>\n<p>I suspect there is very little that is better, from a writer&#8217;s point of view, than when readers write to tell you they enjoy your storytelling and lose themselves &#8212; in a good way \ud83d\ude09 &#8212; in your fantastic worlds.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part shifts around a reasonable amount, depending on where I am in the writing cycle. But a consistent challenge is that it always takes a long time to see results, through the whole process of completing a novel-length story, getting it to publication, and then for a book or series to find its readers. In short, if you&#8217;re an instant gratification personality, novel writing is probably not for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this a lot and I think the best part is that having had all of these stories and worlds and characters in my head, just about forever, committing to being a writer and actually writing them has given me the opportunity to not only share the wonder and delight, but also to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868","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=29868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29876,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions\/29876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}