{"id":229,"date":"2011-02-23T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-03-18T22:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:14:55","slug":"how-i-wrote-my-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"How I wrote My First Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I wrote my first book, I had to write at least a million words of crap. Writing a book isn&#8217;t a single experience, it&#8217;s a journey comprising not only writing lessons, but life lessons. I describe my personal journey in detail in &#8220;My Million Words of Crap,&#8221; one of the articles available in a new eBook called <em>How I Wrote My First Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available through various eBook distributors, including amazon (in kindle format). It will also be available FREE through Twilight Times website during <a href=\"http:\/\/twilighttimesbooks.com\/ttb_free_ebooks2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">read an ebook week, March 6-12<\/a>.  (I&#8217;ll say more about ebook week in March.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I wrote my first book, I had to write at least a million words of crap. Writing a book isn&#8217;t a single experience, it&#8217;s a journey comprising not only writing lessons, but life lessons. I describe my personal journey in detail in &#8220;My Million Words of Crap,&#8221; one of the articles available in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-writers","category-touch-of-fate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}