{"id":228,"date":"2011-09-11T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2011\/09\/one-year\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","slug":"one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been one year since I started writing my first novel. Now I’ve finished three. I guess I should celebreate. Woohoo!<\/p>\n

There, I celebrated.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I feel like writing is celebrating. It’s when I get to open up my mind and creativity. I get to use some of my college training. But really, it’s just nice to accomplish something other than washing clothes\/dishes\/dirty bums.<\/p>\n

Okay, cleaning dirty bums isn’t so bad. I’m used to it by now. And, let’s be honest, kids have pretty cute bums.<\/p>\n

I’d like to start sharing some of the tips I’ve learned from a year of writing. There are some amazing resources out there, I’m sure I haven’t discovered them all, but I can share what I’ve learned so far.<\/p>\n

The first tip I’ll share is this– The First Five Pages<\/em> by Noah Lukeman. Read it, let it settle for a few months, and then read it again. I got my copy off amazon.com for less than five bucks. For first time writers, this book is a must. There you go. Keep checking back and I’ll post another tip some time soon.<\/p>\n

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It’s been one year since I started writing my first novel. Now I’ve finished three. I guess I should celebreate. Woohoo! There, I celebrated. Honestly, I feel like writing is celebrating. It’s when I get to open up my mind and creativity. I get to use some of my college training. But really, it’s just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}