{"id":6864,"date":"2017-10-03T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2017-09-20T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:15:57","slug":"nervous-about-sharing-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/nervous-about-sharing-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Nervous about sharing your writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gay.Hunger.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6866 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gay.Hunger-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gay.Hunger-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gay.Hunger.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>\u201cDo you ever feel nervous about sharing so much in print?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roxane Gay answers, \u201cAbsolutely. The only way I really have the courage or stupidity to share my writing is by believing that no one is going to read it. I have to tell myself that because I\u2018m actually very shy and private in real life. It\u2019 hard to share such personal stories. But here I am!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult at this point to maintain the delusion. It was much easier when I was publishing in small literary magazines and nobody knew who I was.\u201d Roxane Gay, September 2017 Writer\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, even prolific writers are nervous about their work being made public.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a thought:\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry. Just write!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxanegay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roxane Gay\u2019s <\/a>writing appears\u00a0in <em>Best American Mystery Stories 2014<\/em>, <em>Best American Short Stories 2012<\/em>, <em>Best Sex Writing 2012<\/em>, <em>A Public Space<\/em>, <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>, <em>Tin House<\/em>, <em>Oxford American<\/em>, <em>American Short Fiction<\/em>, <em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the <em>New York Times<\/em>. She is the author of the books <em>Ayiti<\/em>, <em>An Untamed State<\/em>, the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling <em>Bad Feminist<\/em>, the nationally bestselling\u00a0<em>Difficult Women<\/em> and the <em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestselling\u00a0<em>Hunger<\/em>. She is also the author of <em>World of Wakanda<\/em> for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you ever feel nervous about sharing so much in print?\u201d Roxane Gay answers, \u201cAbsolutely. The only way I really have the courage or stupidity to share my writing is by believing that no one is going to read it. I have to tell myself that because I\u2018m actually very shy and private in real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[126],"tags":[564],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-roxane-gay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1MI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6867,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}