{"id":183,"date":"2013-04-30T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/30\/inner-goddess-journal-sneak-peek"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:23:00","slug":"inner-goddess-journal-sneak-peek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Inner Goddess journal sneak peek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my tweeps, who will remain anonymous so I don&#8217;t accidentally impact her livelihood, managed to get her hands on a copy of E.L. James&#8217;s <strike>soulless cash\u00a0grab<\/strike>\u00a0writing journal, and took pictures to share with all of you:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/innergoddess4.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/28697-innergoddess4.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I assume the key is a metaphor for unlocking the secrets of blatantly ripping off another author&#8217;s work and making crazy mad bank on it.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it look like inside?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/innergoddess3.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/6dcad-innergoddess3.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\">I imagine this is what people will be saying when someone shows them this styled up and branded blank book and says, &#8220;It cost $9.99.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\">When it was first announced, we were horrified to learn that <i>Inner Goddess: A Journal<\/i>\u00a0was going to feature writing &#8220;advice&#8221; from E.L. James herself.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/innergoddess.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/9eb27-innergoddess.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that just the most precious advice from a fanfic writer? Shake off the bullshit and you find the core of the sentiment: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t write it for you, I wrote it for myself and I don&#8217;t care if you like it!&#8221; Spend any time at all perusing the reviews at FanFiction.net and you&#8217;ll find this same statement over and over from immature authors responding to even the mildest forms of criticism. I can only assume further pages of <i>Inner Goddess<\/i>\u00a0share wisdom like, &#8220;I had to write it for school, I don&#8217;t care what you think!&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t like, don&#8217;t read!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/innergoddess2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/b18d0-innergoddess2.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><i>One must assume &#8220;So long, suckers,&#8221; was considered tacky.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\">Heads up, you could buy nine notebooks at the Dollar Store for the amount you would pay for this one. Alternately, for four more dollars you could buy a Moleskine, and those fuckers last forever. Also, no one has written a bunch of twee shit about reaching for your dreams inside of it.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>So, a fool and his money, I guess is what I&#8217;m getting at here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my tweeps, who will remain anonymous so I don&#8217;t accidentally impact her livelihood, managed to get her hands on a copy of E.L.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=183\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inner Goddess journal sneak peek<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}