{"id":6582,"date":"2017-04-18T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:15:10","slug":"success-in-writing-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/success-in-writing-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Success in writing means . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Josselsohn.Last-Dreamer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6584 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Josselsohn.Last-Dreamer-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Josselsohn.Last-Dreamer-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Josselsohn.Last-Dreamer.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If you have attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/jumpstart.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jumpstart Writing Workshop<\/a>, you may have heard me say,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cThere are two kinds of writing I like. One is when the writing speaks to universal truths\u2014something we can all relate to. The other is when the writing speaks to me personally.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">This excerpt\u00a0from &#8220;The Review Rat Race,&#8221; a &#8220;5-Minute Memoir&#8221; by Barbara Solomon Josselsohn expands upon that thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cTo me, success meant having readers who felt that my novel articulated something important, something they had felt deeply inside but had never been able to express or fully understand before my book came along.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarasolomonjosselsohn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Solomon Josselsohn<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That often happens in Jumpstart . . . the writing touches us deeply as the writer articulates in ways that we hadn&#8217;t been able to express or understand prior to hearing their freewrite.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">* Excerpt from January 2017 issue of Writer\u2019s Digest Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If you have attended a Jumpstart Writing Workshop, you may have heard me say, \u201cThere are two kinds of writing I like. 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The other is when the writing speaks to me personally.&#8221; This excerpt\u00a0from &#8220;The Review Rat Race,&#8221; a &#8220;5-Minute Memoir&#8221; [&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":[1076,6,872,105,329,342],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-barbara-solomon-josselsohn","tag-freewrites","tag-jumpstart-writing-workshop","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1Ia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}