{"id":13510,"date":"2013-05-06T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/06\/at-a-workshop-not-too-many-years-ago-a-newer\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:30:53","slug":"at-a-workshop-not-too-many-years-ago-a-newer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/06\/at-a-workshop-not-too-many-years-ago-a-newer\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those things are true,\u201d I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. \u201cBut until you learn what the good parts were that excited the reader, you\u2019re always going to be bitterly upset about what is wrong with that bestseller. Learn to spot what worked in that book, and you\u2019ll be able to move forward. And you\u2019ll be a lot less upset all the time as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2013\/05\/05\/the-fate-of-todays-book-blog-reviews\/\">Tobias Buckell on \u201cThe fate of today\u2019s book bloggers\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The C.C. Finlay quote: \u201cA novel doesn\u2019t excite readers because you took all the bad stuff out of it, it excites them because of all the good stuff that\u2019s in it, regardless of the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/malindalo.tumblr.com\/\">malindalo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Would note that this is good advice for writers as well as critics\/reviewers. \u00a0Noting what even a book you hated did well is a worthwhile exercise.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rosezemlya.tumblr.com\/\">rosezemlya<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding. \u201cAll those things are true,\u201d I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. \u201cBut until you learn what the good parts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/06\/at-a-workshop-not-too-many-years-ago-a-newer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}