{"id":9143,"date":"2020-03-26T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:37:31","slug":"on-top-of-your-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/on-top-of-your-game\/","title":{"rendered":"On Top Of Your Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My dear friend, Nancy Julien Kopp blogs at Writer Granny\u2019s World by Nancy Julien Kopp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Nancy posted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-November, I posted a review of The Write Spot: Possibilities<\/a>.\u00a0 The anthology consists of stories, essays, and poems by several writers. At the end of each offering is a prompt that might have inspired what they wrote and also a paragraph or two of advice for writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahhh,\nadvice. It can be given, but is it always accepted? Not by a longshot.\nSometimes, we read the advice of other writers with a shield in front of us.\nThe attitude can be Go ahead, teach me something I don’t already know. At\nother times, we’re wide open to any advice given. We want to soak it up like\nwater in a sponge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been\nskimming through the book again looking at the advice the writers offered. I\nconsider it a gift to us, the writer-readers. I’m not going to quote from the\nbook but have chosen bits and pieces of the advice that was given to share with\nyou. Many of the writers repeated similar advice. I find that, when multiple\npeople advise the same thing, I’d better pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice from\nother writers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t be\nafraid to share your work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join a\nwriting group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try\ndifferent mediums of writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never stop\ngrowing as a writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find a\nspecial place to write that is your own<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn from\nyour failures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly every one of those pieces of advice has appeared on my blog at some time, and often more than once. The suggestions for writers to heed is important enough to bear repetition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the\nreasons I especially liked this anthology for writer-readers is that it offers\nmore than the stories, poems, and essays. The prompts are excellent help for\nwriting exercises, and the advice is worth a great deal. These writers put in a\nnutshell what some need an entire book to explain. An additional plus is the\nshort bio of each writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces of advice in The Write Spot: Possibilities<\/em> and on my blog are simple things. Nothing so technical or intricate that others scratch their heads when they read them. Do all those little things, and you’ll be on top of your game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dear friend, Nancy Julien Kopp blogs at Writer Granny\u2019s World by Nancy Julien Kopp. Last year, Nancy posted: In mid-November, I posted a review of The Write Spot: Possibilities.\u00a0 The anthology consists of stories, essays, and poems by several writers. At the end of each offering is a prompt that might have inspired what […]<\/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":[104],"tags":[1140,1265,1150],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","tag-nancy-julien-kopp","tag-the-write-spot-possibilities","tag-writer-grannys-world-by-nancy-julien-kopp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","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=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}