{"id":1210,"date":"2005-05-15T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2005-05-15T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T16:01:00","slug":"1210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ONE MORE READING RECOMMENDATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most of us bloggers are simply frustrated writers. I have some familiarity with going through a professional editing process but not much, relatively speaking, so I found it interesting to read how <strong>Tom Barnett<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/archives2\/001796.html\">was put through his paces by the process at Esquire magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good lesson for aspiring writers on the degree to which you need to have your ducks in a row if you expect to someday get published in a big-time forum. Tom&#8217;s rep as a visionary, best-selling, author did not stop Esquire from taking his reportage and running it through an editorial Iron Maiden &#8211; several times. No quarter was asked or given. Dr. Barnett referred to it as becoming &#8221; a made man&#8221; at Esquire.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of imagine <strong>Mark Warren<\/strong> sitting across a large desk, manuscript in hand, and looking down the barrel of a red-marking pen at a prospective writer laying prostrate on his office floor, and saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Do you feel lucky, punk ?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE MORE READING RECOMMENDATION Most of us bloggers are simply frustrated writers. I have some familiarity with going through a professional editing process but not much, relatively speaking, so I found it interesting to read how Tom Barnett was put through his paces by the process at Esquire magazine. It&#8217;s a good lesson for aspiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}