{"id":45492,"date":"2019-03-13T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45492"},"modified":"2019-03-13T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:11:28","slug":"5-writing-lessons-learned-from-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/5-writing-lessons-learned-from-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Writing Lessons Learned from Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest post on C.S. Lakin&#8217;s <em>Live, Write, Thrive<\/em> blog, Dave Chesson,\u00a0operator of book marketing site <a href=\"https:\/\/kindlepreneur.com\/\">Kindlepreneur.com<\/a>, offers five writing lessons from Margaret Atwood.\u00a0 The short version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t sell yourself short.<\/li>\n<li>Use imaginative \u201cif\u2019\u201d questions to generate creative story ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Your life experience is valid and well worth sharing.<\/li>\n<li>Being an unknown gives you the freedom to explore and experiment.<\/li>\n<li>Emphasize the reader&#8217;s response, as opposed to your own personal take.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livewritethrive.com\/2019\/03\/11\/5-writing-lessons-learned-from-margaret-atwood\/\">Read the long version here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest post on C.S. Lakin&#8217;s Live, Write, Thrive blog, Dave Chesson,\u00a0operator of book marketing site Kindlepreneur.com, offers five writing lessons from Margaret Atwood.\u00a0 The short version: Don\u2019t sell yourself short. Use imaginative \u201cif\u2019\u201d questions to generate creative story ideas. Your life experience is valid and well worth sharing. Being an unknown gives you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,470],"tags":[466,482],"class_list":["post-45492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-pro-tips","tag-inspiration","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45585,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492\/revisions\/45585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}