{"id":25045,"date":"2012-01-03T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/25-things-writers-and-everyone-else-should-stop-doing.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:09:36","slug":"25-things-writers-and-everyone-else-should-stop-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/25-things-writers-and-everyone-else-should-stop-doing.html","title":{"rendered":"25 Things Writers (and everyone else) Should Stop Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great post by Chuck Wendig, with some good, high-level, advice for writers (that would apply to  most people in their professions as well). <\/p>\n<p>I know it&#39;s good advice, because I keep wincing each time I read one of the items. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%2F3313%2F3283605050_770119ce49_z.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/01\/03\/25-things-writers-should-stop-doing\/'>25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great post by Chuck Wendig, with some good, high-level, advice for writers (that would apply to most people in their professions as well). I know it&#39;s good advice, because I keep wincing each time I read one of the items. #ddtb Embedded Link 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21,24],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies","category-writing-and-language","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/writers-and-rejection.html","url_meta":{"origin":25045,"position":0},"title":"Writers and Rejection","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-11 2:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Chuck Wendig speaks sooth. 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