{"id":1907,"date":"2014-08-21T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2014-08-20T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:09:51","slug":"whats-the-most-important-thing-youve-learned-about-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/whats-the-most-important-thing-youve-learned-about-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the most important thing you&#8217;ve learned about writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Andrew Sean Greer\" href=\"http:\/\/andrewgreer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sean Greer<\/a> answers this question in the September 2014 issue of <a title=\"The Writer Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writermag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Writer Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the most important thing you&#8217;ve learned about writing?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That you be clever as clever, and people will be impressed, but they will only be impressed for so long. After that, unless you are very real in your writing, and donate some piece of your heart, and are vulnerable, someone else will come along much more clever than you. Better to be ready from the outset. There is no competition for vulnerability. We are all in that together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong>\u00a0 There&#8217;s that vulnerability thing again.\u00a0 Feeling vulnerable seems to go along with sharing your writing with others. . . that&#8217;s what Steve Jobs and I were talking about in the <a title=\"August 14, 2014 post\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1836\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2014 post<\/a> about the most important tool in life about making big choices.\u00a0 Well, Steve and I didn&#8217;t actually have this conversation. . . but we could have, in my writerly imagination!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn:<\/strong>\u00a0 What&#8217;s the most important thing you&#8217;ve learned about writing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Writer-Magazine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1908 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Writer-Magazine.png\" alt=\"The Writer Magazine\" width=\"155\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sean Greer answers this question in the September 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine. What&#8217;s the most important thing you&#8217;ve learned about writing? &#8220;That you be clever as clever, and people will be impressed, but they will only be impressed for so long. After that, unless you are very real in your writing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[545,546,45],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-andrew-sean-greer","tag-steve-jobs","tag-the-writer-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-uL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}