{"id":32981,"date":"2013-10-20T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32981"},"modified":"2015-07-07T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T04:29:58","slug":"the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The gift is writing fewer words, not more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am editing, trying to reduce 2100 words to 1500. When someone says &#8220;Oh, I can write 5000 words on that!&#8221;\u00a0 Well, sure 5,000 words anyone can do. The gift is in reducing it to 1,500 words that keep someone&#8217;s attention riveted. Brevity and entertainment take skill. I could use a little of each.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The gift is writing fewer words, not more&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=The%20gift%20is%20writing%20fewer%20words,%20not%20more&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gift-is-writing-fewer-words-not-more\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am editing, trying to reduce 2100 words to 1500. When someone says &#8220;Oh, I can write 5000 words on that!&#8221;\u00a0 Well, sure 5,000 words anyone can do. The gift is in reducing it to 1,500 words that keep someone&#8217;s attention riveted. Brevity and entertainment take skill. I could use a little of each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41728,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32981\/revisions\/41728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}