{"id":45696,"date":"2019-03-19T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45696"},"modified":"2019-03-23T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:19:09","slug":"time-to-turn-off-your-internal-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/time-to-turn-off-your-internal-censor\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Turn Off Your Internal Censor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest post on <em>DIY MFA<\/em>, writer Stephanie Jo Harris discusses the trepidation she felt approaching the sequel to her novel, <em>The Poet<\/em>. As a result of publication, Harris naturally found a readership, and as she began to contemplate her follow-up, she worried about offending or letting them down. Such fears are naturally limiting to writers, who need the freedom to follow their creative inclinations. The self-censor is far greater killer than the internal editor.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217; first tip for writing fearlessly goes against a lot of popular wisdom &#8211; don&#8217;t think about the audience and forget who might be reading it. Writing to the expectations of an imaginary reader &#8211; or worse, providing fan service &#8211; is a creativity killer. She also recommends becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable. If your work doesn&#8217;t make you feel something &#8211; fear, sadness, unease &#8211; it&#8217;s less likely to move an audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diymfa.com\/writing\/5onfri-writing-fearlessly\">Read the rest of her tips here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/mistakes-editing-school-red-ink-1756958\/\">Image<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/annekarakash-1527809\/\">annekarakash<\/a> on Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest post on DIY MFA, writer Stephanie Jo Harris discusses the trepidation she felt approaching the sequel to her novel, The Poet. As a result of publication, Harris naturally found a readership, and as she began to contemplate her follow-up, she worried about offending or letting them down. Such fears are naturally limiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[548],"class_list":["post-45696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-self-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45696","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=45696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46037,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45696\/revisions\/46037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}