{"id":7839,"date":"2013-03-03T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2013-03-03T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T17:00:19","slug":"i-hope-you-like-it-week-of-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=7839","title":{"rendered":"I Hope You Like It&#8230; (Week of March 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gerer-critique-sur-internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7840\" alt=\"www.seomix.fr \" src=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gerer-critique-sur-internet.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>The hardest part of a writer&#8217;s life is maybe, just maybe, is putting one&#8217;s work out for others to read and give feedback. There are some anxious, hand-wringing moments when a writer is sure that exposure as a fraud is imminent, when that trusted friend may come back and suggest that the writer give it up and keep the day job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not those comments that are the most worrisome, though. Perhaps the comments that say &#8220;it&#8217;s good but&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;I liked it but&#8230;&#8221; are the hardest to take. &#8216;But&#8217; is a deflating kind of word, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, our writers this week are going to tell us about handling critiques and rejections. They&#8217;ve got their coffee, the stage is lit and the mic is open. Pull up a chair here and our servers will be circulating, ready to take your orders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part of a writer&#8217;s life is maybe, just maybe, is putting one&#8217;s work out for others to read and give feedback. There are some anxious, hand-wringing moments when a writer is sure that exposure as a fraud is imminent, when that trusted friend may come back and suggest that the writer give it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[241,921],"class_list":["post-7839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers-life","tag-critiques","tag-rejection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}