{"id":1107,"date":"2018-07-26T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:23","slug":"how-to-make-a-writer-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"How to make a writer happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got an email from a total stranger. She had contacted me through this website to share her appreciation of a book I wrote called <em>Women of the World: Women Travelers and Expl<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1108\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Women-of-the-World.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"111\" \/><em>orers. <\/em>It was published in 1994 as part of a trilogy on explorers for Oxford University Press. This book was a labor of love and is one of my favorites among my own books, so I was doubly touched that my correspondent had taken the time and trouble to write.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d come across a reference to my book while researching a project of her own&#8211;she is, as I learned from her website, a writer and editor&#8211;and had gotten hold of the book, and had liked it. You can be sure I&#8217;ll get hold of some of her writing now.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s one thing that will make a writer very happy: someone popping up out of the blue to say, &#8220;Thanks, job well done.&#8221; If you haven&#8217;t done that lately, drop an author a note or a tweet or a post about something you&#8217;ve read recently and liked. They&#8217;ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got an email from a total stranger. She had contacted me through this website to share her appreciation of a book I wrote called Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers. It was published in 1994 as part of a trilogy on explorers for Oxford University Press. This book was a labor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}