{"id":938,"date":"2014-04-08T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:15:00","slug":"short-may-be-the-new-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/short-may-be-the-new-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Short may be the new long game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Strawser, editor of The Writer&#8217;s Digest magazine, writes about the benefits of writing short pieces in the March\/April 2014 issue of the Writer&#8217;s Digest magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Writing short is a too-often overlooked way to break out in <i>any<\/i> field of writing. Even if \u2014perhaps <i>especially<\/i> if \u2014your ultimate goal is to publish a book one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continues, &#8220;. . . a diverse approach to getting your name &#8216;out there&#8217; \u2014whether through personal essays on popular websites, feature articles in leading glossies, or short stories in respected literary journals\u2014is far smarter than focusing your efforts in one place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to write short pieces . . . go ahead!\u00a0 Follow the <a title=\"writing prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">prompts<\/a> in this blog and post your writing here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lola.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-842\" alt=\"Lola\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lola.png\" width=\"235\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Strawser, editor of The Writer&#8217;s Digest magazine, writes about the benefits of writing short pieces in the March\/April 2014 issue of the Writer&#8217;s Digest magazine. &#8220;Writing short is a too-often overlooked way to break out in any field of writing. Even if \u2014perhaps especially if \u2014your ultimate goal is to publish a book one [&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":[126],"tags":[6,105,329,10,11],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-f8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}