{"id":7022,"date":"2003-07-31T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/31\/7022\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:35:06","slug":"7022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/31\/7022\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hatchet is a Valuable Tool in Any Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\" target=\"new\">The Professor<\/a> links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/archives\/000371.html\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> by John Scalzi.  Scalzi&#8217;s critical of workshops for writers, which are more often than not touchy-feely confabs for consumers in the ever-profitable writer-wannabe market.  I understand the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to my Writing Intensive English (appropriately enough, acronymed as WINE) degree, I enjoyed many workshop-centric classes and extra-curricular activities.  As you can imagine, my style was much like that of Gene Wolfe, the protagonist of the Scalzi posting.  Blunt and acerbic, I pointed out <i>flaws<\/i> in the other writers&#8217; work.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, if they cannot take it from a peer, I didn&#8217;t expect they could take it in the cold, cruel world of publishing.  Besides, if I broke their hearts and drove them into a Business Administration degree, I was thinning the herd and eliminating potential competition early.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, I haven&#8217;t had much more publishing success than they did anyway.  But at least I had <i>fun<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professor links to a piece by John Scalzi. Scalzi&#8217;s critical of workshops for writers, which are more often than not touchy-feely confabs for consumers in the ever-profitable writer-wannabe market. I understand the feeling. On the way to my Writing Intensive English (appropriately enough, acronymed as WINE) degree, I enjoyed many workshop-centric classes and extra-curricular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21281,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}