{"id":26111,"date":"2015-02-16T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26111"},"modified":"2015-02-16T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:20:28","slug":"post-a-paragraph-from-your-wip-receive-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/02\/16\/post-a-paragraph-from-your-wip-receive-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Post A Paragraph From Your WIP, Receive Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, word-nerds.<\/p>\n<p>The comments on this post is now an open forum\u00a0where you can drop a paragraph of your work-in-progress (aka &#8220;WIP&#8221;) &#8212; limited to ~100 words or so. Pop it in the comments and others may offer some critique &#8212; critique not meaning, &#8220;Tear it to shreds,&#8221; but rather, &#8220;An evaluation of the good and bad elements of the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This is salient, by the way, as this week I&#8217;ll have a short post about critique.)<\/p>\n<p>The one rule is:<\/p>\n<p>If you post a paragraph for critique&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You <strong>must<\/strong> then also offer critique for someone else&#8217;s paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>Quid pro quo, Clarice.<\/p>\n<p>As to what paragraph you choose?<\/p>\n<p>You might choose an opening paragraph, or a paragraph\u00a0that&#8217;s giving you some trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Be kind.<\/p>\n<p>Be constructive, not destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and help one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, word-nerds. The comments on this post is now an open forum\u00a0where you can drop a paragraph of your work-in-progress (aka &#8220;WIP&#8221;) &#8212; limited to ~100 words or so. Pop it in the comments and others may offer some critique &#8212; critique not meaning, &#8220;Tear it to shreds,&#8221; but rather, &#8220;An evaluation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6N9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26114,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions\/26114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}