{"id":1793,"date":"2015-01-05T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2015-01-05T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:38:29","slug":"patience-and-obstinacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Patience and Obstinacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This below is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agota_Kristof\"><strong>Agota Kristof<\/strong><\/a>, author of my favourite thing I read in 2014, <strong>The Notebook<\/strong>. It&#8217;s from another and almost equally astonishing book of Kristof&#8217;s, called <strong>The Illiterate<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>How do you become a writer? First of all, naturally, you must write. Then, you must continue to write. Even when it doesn&#8217;t interest anyone. Even when you feel that it will never interest anyone. Even when the manuscripts pile up in the drawers and you forget them, while writing new ones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8230;Here is the answer to the question: you become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s the mission. Now to get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This below is from Agota Kristof, author of my favourite thing I read in 2014, The Notebook. It&#8217;s from another and almost equally astonishing book of Kristof&#8217;s, called The Illiterate: How do you become a writer? First of all, naturally, you must write. Then, you must continue to write. Even when it doesn&#8217;t interest anyone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}