{"id":155,"date":"2010-02-17T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:47:44","slug":"towel-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/towel-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWEL Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So the very nice Tamie Gonzalez, whose website has lots of interesting articles, as well as straight talk about pursuing publication, graciously gave me her towel.<\/p>\n

I mean, she gave me permission to share the TOWEL acronym, which is actually courtesy of Marilyn Singer<\/a>, a children’s book writer who’s had a long and varied career.<\/p>\n

Are you ready for TOWEL?\u00a0 Can you take it?<\/p>\n

What you need to succeed:<\/p>\n

Talent<\/h1>\n

Optimism<\/h1>\n

Widespread Interests<\/h1>\n

Endurance<\/h1>\n

Luck\u00a0<\/h1>\n

I like that because it both acknowledges that there is something innate and uncontrollable about success–talent and luck.\u00a0 You need to contribute the a component, of course–endurance.\u00a0 And then you need to have the right attitude–optimism–and a personal quality that I’ve always appreciated in people and been frankly bored by when it’s not exhibited: widespread interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now I am going to exercise my optimism<\/em> and send out a bunch of press releases–something that also takes endurance<\/em> because sorting through the list of contacts to find those who need to be contacted now…not so exciting.\u00a0 Later, I will rock out with my talent<\/em> (or at least, my writing) and…okay, yeah, this is going to Cheeseland fast.\u00a0 But anyway, lest you falter: use a towel.<\/p>\n

You can read Tamie’s full\u00a0summary of the “People Who Made It” panel\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 There’s much less cheese there, I promise–and Richard Peck, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the very nice Tamie Gonzalez, whose website has lots of interesting articles, as well as straight talk about pursuing publication, graciously gave me her towel. I mean, she gave me permission to share the TOWEL acronym, which is actually courtesy of Marilyn Singer, a children’s book writer who’s had a long and varied career. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writerly-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}