{"id":1901,"date":"2020-05-21T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:32:20","slug":"review-ten-things-about-writing-by-joanne-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-ten-things-about-writing-by-joanne-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ten Things About Writing, by Joanne Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joanne Harris knows a thing or two about writing, having published some 20 novels and several other books as well.  This short book came out at the height of the Covid-19 crisis and just in time for budding writers out there who might be using lockdown and quarantine as a time to consider a career as an author.  Her advice is clear and simple, and is based on a series of tweets she&#8217;s been putting out there for some time.  I agree with much of what she has to say and completely endorse one bit of advice that comes up several times: if you&#8217;re a writer and you live in the UK, join the Society of Authors &#8212; your trade union.  Harris speaks with some authority: she&#8217;s been the Chair of the Society&#8217;s Management Committee since early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Harris knows a thing or two about writing, having published some 20 novels and several other books as well. This short book came out at the height of the Covid-19 crisis and just in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","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\/1901","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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}