{"id":4604,"date":"2019-01-30T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:15:05","slug":"updikes-advice-to-young-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/updikes-advice-to-young-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s advice to young writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Updike\u2019s writing tips appear in a nearly two-minute video published by \u200b<em>Melville House<\/em>\u200b:  &#8220;John Updike\u2019s Writing Advice is Something All Writers Should Try,\u201d by Stephanie Valente. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-09-at-6.45.05-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4479\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Updike offers young writers insight and advice for the writing process: \u201cDevelop actual work\nhabits. Reserve an hour or more a day to write,\u201d Updike says.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updike advises writers to simply \u201cread what excites you. Even if you don\u2019t imitate it, you will\nlearn from it.\u201d He also points out the bitter-sweet reality: &#8220;Don\u2019t try to be rich,\u201d Updike says.\n\u201cWriters work to entertain and instruct a reader.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/john-updikes-writing-advice-is-something-all-writers-should-try\/\">full video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike\u2019s writing tips appear in a nearly two-minute video published by \u200bMelville House\u200b: &#8220;John Updike\u2019s Writing Advice is Something All Writers Should Try,\u201d by Stephanie Valente. Updike offers young writers insight and advice for the writing process: \u201cDevelop actual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/updikes-advice-to-young-writers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}