{"id":2224,"date":"2012-12-09T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:36:47","slug":"on-john-scalzi-on-writing-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/on-john-scalzi-on-writing-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"On John Scalzi On Writing for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/suddenclarity1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/suddenclarity-tm1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"suddenclarity.png\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Scalzi <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/12\/09\/a-note-to-you-should-you-be-thinking-of-asking-me-to-write-for-you-for-free\/\">recently complained about people asking him to write for free<\/a>. His article&#8217;s funny and reveals a lot about the writing industry many people who aren&#8217;t in the industry don&#8217;t know. Then I realized:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>If someone asks you to write for free, that means they think writing is worth nothing.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Well, maybe they&#8217;re broke, or ignorant, or something similar. But generally that&#8217;s clear from context.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s moment of clarity was brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">Whatever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: &#8220;Sudden Clarity Clarence,&#8221; a young man who&#8217;s just realized he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/sudden-clarity-clarence\">spawned an internet meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; John Scalzi recently complained about people asking him to write for free. His article&#8217;s funny and reveals a lot about the writing industry many people who aren&#8217;t in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,108],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-moments-of-clarity","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}