{"id":751,"date":"2019-06-10T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=751"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:19:14","slug":"the-secret-by-the-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"The Secret &#8211; by the Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So while I was writing <em>Real Magic<\/em> <em>for Writers<\/em>, I realized that I stumbled upon what I call in the book &#8220;The Secret.&#8221; It&#8217;s not really a secret; it&#8217;s what most other writers say about how to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sit down and write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the secret. Simple, huh? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was talking to someone recently who gave me a detailed Steampunk story, and ended it by saying, &#8220;But I have to write it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, yeah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the risk of putting people off: You&#8217;re not a writer if you think about writing. You have to do the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what the core of <em>Real Magic<\/em> is&#8211;doing the work. (I&#8217;ve just saved you the price of the book.) I only hope that the book is uplifting enough and helpful enough for others to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while I was writing Real Magic for Writers, I realized that I stumbled upon what I call in the book &#8220;The Secret.&#8221; It&#8217;s not really a secret; it&#8217;s what most other writers say about how to write. Sit down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}