{"id":260,"date":"2006-03-10T18:34:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/this-is-true-for-life-too.htm"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:07:20","slug":"this-is-true-for-life-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/this-is-true-for-life-too\/","title":{"rendered":"This is true for life, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an answer to one of her blog readers, literary agent Miss Snark <a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/what-if-my-agent-cant-sell-my-book.html\">gave out a piece of advice<\/a> that applies as well to life as it does to navigating a writing career.<\/p>\n<p>The reader was worried about the chances of being published <em>after<\/em> he\/she gets an agent. Here&#8217;s Miss Snark&#8217;s advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right now what you are doing is the equivalent of what 15th century mapmakers in Spain did&#8230;..they drew pictures of monsters at the edge of the map. Right now you&#8217;re in Spain preparing to set sail and you&#8217;re looking at the map seeing only the unknown. Just remember that where they drew monsters is present day Hawaii.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unknown is just that &#8212; unknown. But we do tend to populate it with scary things, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an answer to one of her blog readers, literary agent Miss Snark gave out a piece of advice that applies as well to life as it does to navigating a writing career. The reader was worried about the chances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/this-is-true-for-life-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[535,1092,786,241],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-miss-snark","tag-the-writing-process","tag-writer-advice","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}