{"id":443,"date":"2020-05-06T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:11:02","slug":"dont-malign-yourself-or-your-writing-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/dont-malign-yourself-or-your-writing-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Malign Yourself or Your Writing Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m close to the finish line on my historical standalone. Through this whole process of writing it, I&#8217;ve come to appreciate the mystery genre even more. That plot is not anything to be ashamed of. That movement through a narrative can be beautiful. Embrace your strengths, whatever they are. Writers can get so self-critical and yet I don&#8217;t see that kind of self-denegration helpful, at least for me.<\/p>\n<p>Self-love is a term that used so often and sometimes carelessly that I think that it has lost all meaning. Instead, I&#8217;ll say don&#8217;t malign yourself or your writing ability. Be realistic and clear-headed about your weaknesses, always open to improvement, but on the other side, don&#8217;t malign yourself or your writing gift. Because creativity is indeed a gift, and many times we don&#8217;t like the wrapping that the gift comes in. We want someone else&#8217;s gift that seems grander and more sophisticated. Accept what has been given and roll with it. I&#8217;m now traveling downhill with my narrative and I have to say that I&#8217;m enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m close to the finish line on my historical standalone. Through this whole process of writing it, I&#8217;ve come to appreciate the mystery genre even more. That plot is not anything to be ashamed of. That movement through a narrative can be beautiful. Embrace your strengths, whatever they are. Writers can get so self-critical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-wednesday","tag-amwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}