{"id":292,"date":"2006-04-03T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2006-04-03T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T15:00:56","slug":"advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the following in an old issue (Fall 2005) of the <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsguild.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">Author&#8217;s Guild<\/a> <\/strong>Bulletin<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The late E.B. White wrote to Linda H. Davis, young author of a biography about White&#8217;s wife, Katherine White: &#8220;Advice from this elderly practioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in the project. Write about it by day, and dream about it by night.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Practical advice is a good thing. Proverbial wisdom, on the other hand,  is more difficult to apply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want your dreams to come true, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sleep. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Yiddish proverb<\/p>\n<p>If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Haitian proverb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the following in an old issue (Fall 2005) of the Author&#8217;s Guild Bulletin: The late E.B. White wrote to Linda H. Davis, young author of a biography about White&#8217;s wife, Katherine White: &#8220;Advice from this elderly practioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables","category-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}