{"id":951,"date":"2009-11-13T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:51","slug":"short-n-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2009\/11\/short-n-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Short &#8216;n Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-939\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-939 \" title=\"img_2321-1\" src=\"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2321-1-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"Your Book Writing Coach Lisa Tener\" width=\"170\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your Book Writing Coach Lisa Tener<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to take off for Lucky Las Vegas for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medfusionconf.org\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Fusion Conference<\/a>, where I&#8217;ll be presenting\u00a0 a writing workshop on 5 Secrets of Good Writing, serving on a panel about getting published and meeting one-on-one with aspiring authors in the medical field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s one secret to good writing<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t use any extraneous words, even if you feel you really want to and it seems like it would be helpful to add a few clauses in your sentence so that it&#8217;s meaty and has a lot in it, because the reader eventually gets lost with all that run on writing and will forget what they&#8217;re even reading after a while. Know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>In other words, keep it <strong>short and sweet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to take off for Lucky Las Vegas for the Medical Fusion Conference, where I&#8217;ll be presenting\u00a0 a writing workshop on 5 Secrets of Good Writing, serving on a panel about getting published and meeting one-on-one with aspiring authors in the medical field. Here&#8217;s one secret to good writing: Don&#8217;t use any extraneous words,&#8230;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2009\/11\/short-n-sweet\/\"><em>&nbsp; Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,28,30],"tags":[362,363,1687,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-writing","7":"category-writing-challenges","8":"category-writing-coach","9":"category-writing-workshop","10":"tag-medical-fusion-conference","11":"tag-secret-to-good-writing","12":"tag-secrets-to-good-writing","13":"tag-short-writing","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279424,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/279424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}