{"id":9465,"date":"2020-07-23T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:35:53","slug":"sy-and-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/sy-and-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sy and Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SySafransky.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9466\" width=\"153\" height=\"194\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy Safransky has this to say about editing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers sometimes ask how much I edit my own writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I edit until each paragraph has lost the ten pounds it gained over the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I edit until each sentence can survive three days in the wilderness on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father taught me to look at a sentence and, if it didn\u2019t deserve to live, shoot it between the eyes.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"18\" height=\"24\" src=\"\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/457\/beginners-mind\" target=\"_blank\">Sy Safransky<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesunmagazine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun Magazine<\/a>, May 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sy Safransky has this to say about editing: Readers sometimes ask how much I edit my own writing. I edit until each paragraph has lost the ten pounds it gained over the winter. I edit until each sentence can survive three days in the wilderness on its own. My father taught me to look at [&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":[3],"tags":[1396],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-sy-sanfransky-the-sun-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2sF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","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=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9471,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions\/9471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}