{"id":1007,"date":"2017-06-08T20:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:53:03","slug":"the-writing-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/the-writing-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From a newsgroup post dated February 10, 2009:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m cleaning my office, trying to get it fit to allow prospective homebuyers in it, and this includes sorting through papers and filing or tossing most of them, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing this afternoon, and I&#8217;ve just now been going through a stash of story ideas &#8212; print-outs of Usenet and SFF Net posts, scribbled notes of one sort or another, sketchy maps, correspondence with editors about planned projects, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the scribbled notes is a story idea I had completely, totally forgotten, which has the potential to be an absolutely beautiful, heartbreaking story.  How could I not have <i>remembered<\/i> that one?<\/p>\n<p><i>Note, June 8, 2017:  I haven&#8217;t forgotten it again, but I still haven&#8217;t written it, either.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a newsgroup post dated February 10, 2009: So I&#8217;m cleaning my office, trying to get it fit to allow prospective homebuyers in it, and this includes sorting through papers and filing or tossing most of them, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing this afternoon, and I&#8217;ve just now been going through a stash of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/the-writing-life\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}