{"id":59370,"date":"2019-02-27T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=59370"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T17:12:55","slug":"schrijftips-van-william-zinnser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/schrijftips-van-william-zinnser\/","title":{"rendered":"schrijftips van william zinsser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I don\u2019t do tips,&#8217; I told the man calling from the school\u2019s English department. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have any; <em>On Writing Well<\/em> is full of what might be called tips. But that\u2019s not the point of the book. It\u2019s a book of craft principles that add up to what it means to be a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That\u2019s a larger package\u2013a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.<\/p>\n<p><!--- In my own work I operate within a framework of Christian values, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention. ---><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I think of intention as the writer\u2019s soul. Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. Editors may want us to do destructive work to serve some agenda of their own, but nobody can make us write what we don\u2019t want to write. We get to keep intention.<\/p>\n<p>I always write to affirm. I choose to write about people whose values I respect; my pleasure is to bear witness to their lives. Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to writers and musicians who represent the best of their art. Tips didn\u2019t get them there.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Zinsser is eerst een mens, zegt hij ergens, dan een schrijver, en zeker geen auteur.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--- You must give yourself permission, by a daily act of will, to believe in your remembered truth. Do not remain nameless to yourself. Only you can turn on the switch; nobody is going to do it for you. ---> <!--- in een ander log ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I don\u2019t do tips,&#8217; I told the man calling from the school\u2019s English department. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have any; On Writing Well is full of what might be called tips. But that\u2019s not the point of the book. It\u2019s a book of craft principles that add up to what it means to be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/schrijftips-van-william-zinnser\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,122],"tags":[1839,3189,3190,3187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60525,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59370\/revisions\/60525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}