{"id":1652,"date":"2013-09-16T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1652\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T10:48:48","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-the-non-fiction-writers-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-the-non-fiction-writers-course\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>the non-fiction writer&#8217;s course<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth session of the non-fiction writer&#8217;s course arranged by the Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers dealt with social media. For background information, I used Twitter and Facebook to ask authors and other book people about their work-related use of social media. Over thirty writers replied and the answers suggest that an isolated writer can find a professional community online. Keeping current with your field is vital for a writer, but he needs to use filters to avoid information overload. Many respondents said that they are choosing motifs and interviewees for their books from online discussions. A few writers have tried out different plot twists and literary approaches online prior to writing the final version. Information flows smoothly in social networks, as long as it&#8217;s not overt marketing. Authors have also reaped concrete benefits: contacts, job offers, even publishing contracts. So online discussion brings a lot of good, though it also takes time from writing. As experienced IT-writer <i>Petteri J\u00e4rvinen\u00a0<\/i>summed it up: You can&#8217;t have them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth session of the non-fiction writer&#8217;s course arranged by the Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers dealt with social media. For background information, I used Twitter and Facebook to ask authors and other book people about their work-related use of social media. Over thirty writers replied and the answers suggest that an isolated writer can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-english-en","category-wordoftheweek-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}