{"id":23130,"date":"2012-08-17T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mikkipedia-writers-dont-write-from-experience\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:11:08","slug":"mikkipedia-writers-dont-write-from-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mikkipedia-writers-dont-write-from-experience\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikkipedia.tumblr.com\/post\/29616425202\/writers-dont-write-from-experience-though-many\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mikkipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWriters don\u2019t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don\u2019t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you\u2019d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Nikki Giovanni (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/amandaonwriting.tumblr.com\/\">amandaonwriting<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Hm. I have mixed feelings about how empathy functions, or how it can be manipulated, as previously discussed. Part of the solution to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkipedia.tumblr.com\/tagged\/empathetic_crisis\">empathetic crisis<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkipedia.tumblr.com\/post\/28092643180\/debilitating-nothing-can-wear-you-out-like\">disowning empathy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkipedia.tumblr.com\/post\/26934367681\/narcissists-are-a-extremely-sensitive-to\">those<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkipedia.tumblr.com\/post\/29228118346\/me-im-out-of-therapy-but-one-of-the-main-things\">feed<\/a> on it. I do think empathy makes me a better <em>editor<\/em>, especially for the kinds of things I&rsquo;m editing now, because half of it is coaxing the truth out of people who have already invested the the narrative they think people want to hear. Also, there is nothing more loathsome than people who talk about how to be a good writer or writing in general, with special loathing for that Roxane Gay thing. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speculative empathy, maybe? Calling forth, invoking, creatively conjuring what it may (must) feel like if&hellip;.  in real time, unselfconsciously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mikkipedia: \u201cWriters don\u2019t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don\u2019t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you\u2019d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.\u201d \u2014 Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting) Hm. I have mixed feelings about how empathy functions, or how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-614","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130","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=23130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}