{"id":106,"date":"2010-04-10T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/what-a-writer-values\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:22:24","slug":"what-a-writer-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/what-a-writer-values\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Writer Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so long ago I participated in a government subsidized program in support of the film industry (<em>Hi, I&#8217;m from Canada!<\/em>). In the application paperwork there was a question among the usual informational fare that stuck with me. The question was: &#8220;What do you value most about being a writer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was completely stumped.<\/p>\n<p>I still am. Forget trying to analyze what they might be trying to glean about my personality from such a question, I was stuck on simply trying to comprehend the question itself. What do I <em>value<\/em> about being a writer? Could it be the low to non-existent income? The lack of having anything in common with anybody in my family or social circle? Or maybe what I value most is having the measure of my hard work gauged &#8211; in seconds and without any real pontification &#8211; by everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there&#8217;s lots to value about being a writer. So why do it? You know why. If you&#8217;re reading this, you know why. Because you don&#8217;t choose &#8220;the arts.&#8221; Who would? It&#8217;s a hereditary affliction and you live with it. That sounds worse than it is. It sounds like a resentful complaint, but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s just a statement of fact.<\/p>\n<p>They gave me three lines to answer the question on the application form. Three things I value most about being a writer. In the end I could think of only one and I wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The ability to exorcise stories from my brain<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And really, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, what this writer values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}