{"id":45887,"date":"2019-03-27T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45887"},"modified":"2019-03-30T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T01:41:32","slug":"how-to-shut-out-the-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/how-to-shut-out-the-herd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shut Out the Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers are often encouraged to find their community, for many reasons &#8211; inspiration, motivation, encouragement, critiques, networking, and on and on. However, what can you do when your community becomes a herd, and instead of motivating, becomes stifling? Or when too many people want to provide their input on your manuscript?\u00a0&#8220;You\u2019re not writing the book YOU wanted to write, you\u2019re writing a book for a hundred people,&#8221; writes Patrice Caldwell on the <em>Pub Crawl<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell found herself in this position, and shares her experience on shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishingcrawl.com\/2019\/03\/20\/shutting-out-the-cooks\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">Image courtesy Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers are often encouraged to find their community, for many reasons &#8211; inspiration, motivation, encouragement, critiques, networking, and on and on. However, what can you do when your community becomes a herd, and instead of motivating, becomes stifling? Or when too many people want to provide their input on your manuscript?\u00a0&#8220;You\u2019re not writing the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[555,517,554],"class_list":["post-45887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-community","tag-critiques","tag-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","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=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46514,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions\/46514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}