{"id":29831,"date":"2016-08-24T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=29831"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:49:08","slug":"writing-is-work-and-its-art-except-when-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/08\/24\/writing-is-work-and-its-art-except-when-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Is Work, And It&#8217;s Art, Except When It&#8217;s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there had been that Twitter meme going around about your first seven jobs &#8212; I played, did my list, and I put &#8220;writer&#8221; on there because it was, is, and hopefully shall\u00a0<em>remain<\/em>, a job. But it&#8217;s also not a job &#8212; for some, it&#8217;s a hobby, for others, an art form, for others still, merely an aspiration. And for many of us, it&#8217;s all of those things bound up with duct tape and shoved in the trunk of a fast-speeding car about to careen off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>I had thoughts on writing as work &#8212; and as not-work &#8212; which I&#8217;m putting in here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-writing-as-a-job\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PLEASE TO ENJOY<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-writing-as-a-job\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-writing-as-a-job.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/on-writing-as-a-job\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;On Writing As A Job, And As More Than A Job&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there had been that Twitter meme going around about your first seven jobs &#8212; I played, did my list, and I put &#8220;writer&#8221; on there because it was, is, and hopefully shall\u00a0remain, a job. But it&#8217;s also not a job &#8212; for some, it&#8217;s a hobby, for others, an art form, for others still, [&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-29831","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-7L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831","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=29831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29833,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions\/29833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}