{"id":4111,"date":"2015-04-22T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:23:08","slug":"write-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/write-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Faster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4112 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4369-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4369\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4369-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4369-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4369-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4369.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When I receive an email from a reader asking me to write faster, I always wish I could oblige. The truth is, I\u2019m a steady writer, but not a particularly fast one. I put the hours in and need to go through layers of revisions to produce anything worthwhile. Sometimes my drafts go quickly, but other times they go backwards. I\u2019m amazed at my friends who can write three or four books a year, and I wish I knew how to do the same. Maybe someday I\u2019ll learn.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I\u2019m plugging away. Fortunately, writing is more of a pudding than a race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I receive an email from a reader asking me to write faster, I always wish I could oblige. The truth is, I\u2019m a steady writer, but not a particularly fast one. I put the hours in and need to go through layers of revisions to produce anything worthwhile. Sometimes my drafts go quickly, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}