{"id":1476,"date":"2018-09-07T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T10:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2018-09-07T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T10:09:09","slug":"review-writing-tools-55-essential-tools-for-every-writer-by-roy-peter-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-writing-tools-55-essential-tools-for-every-writer-by-roy-peter-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, by Roy Peter Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Peter Clark has been teaching writing to journalists and others (including schoolchildren) for several decades &#8212; and now he has taught me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a number of writing books over the years and this is one of the better ones.\u00a0 The book consists of 50 tips &#8212; with 5 more thrown in the for the latest (2016) edition.\u00a0 My personal favourite is No. 41: &#8220;Turn procrastination into rehearsal.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a sample of what he says: &#8220;One writer daydreams, another eats, another walks, another listens to music, another paces &#8230; Each act of procrastination can become a time of planning and preparation.&#8221;\u00a0 As one who has a tendency to procrastinate myself, I love this idea.\u00a0 A great book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Peter Clark has been teaching writing to journalists and others (including schoolchildren) for several decades &#8212; and now he has taught me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a number of writing books over the years and this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}