{"id":399,"date":"2007-07-30T00:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/weekly-summary-july-22\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T00:02:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:02:42","slug":"weekly-summary-july-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/weekly-summary-july-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Summary July 22 (Retreat and Podcasts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a writer&#8217;s retreat with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriehaskell.com\/journal\/\">Merrie Haskell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/splash-the-cat.livejournal.com\/\">Julie Winningham<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/daveamongus.livejournal.com\/\">David Klecha<\/a>, where we swam in the lake, played minigolf, and, yes, wrote. I wrote the story I&#8217;d developed a couple months ago (~2600 words; my short stories are short), which was exactly what I&#8217;d planned to do.<\/p>\n<p>Listened to a zillion episodes of writing podcasts in the car, mostly several <a href=\"http:\/\/isbw.murlafferty.com\/\">I Should Be Writing<\/a>, two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com\/\">Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing<\/a>, my entire backlog of the creative writing podcast from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanwriters.com\/\">AmericanWriters.com<\/a>, and two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/talkshoe\/web\/tscmd\/tc\/20652\">Writers Talking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connie Willis had a great analogy on one of the ISBW&#8217;s.  You hear people complaining about how difficult it is to find time to write. Others point out that you don&#8217;t find it, you make it. Willis said you carve it out of rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a writer&#8217;s retreat with Merrie Haskell, Julie Winningham, and David Klecha, where we swam in the lake, played minigolf, and, yes, wrote. I wrote the story I&#8217;d developed a couple months ago (~2600 words; my short stories are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/weekly-summary-july-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}