{"id":14058,"date":"2015-03-06T04:03:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-you-are-going-to-learn-from-other-writers-dont\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T04:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:03:06","slug":"if-you-are-going-to-learn-from-other-writers-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-you-are-going-to-learn-from-other-writers-dont\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you are going to learn from other writers don\u2019t only read the great ones, because if you do that you\u2019ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you\u2019ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you\u2019ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of bad stuff, too. It\u2019s very encouraging. \u201cHey, I can do so much better than this.\u201d Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn\u2019t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Edward Albee<br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/kadrey.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kadrey<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to learn from other writers don\u2019t only read the great ones, because if you do that you\u2019ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you\u2019ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you\u2019ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3EK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}