{"id":16434,"date":"2012-09-18T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16434"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:35:25","slug":"writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16434","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Autumn) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Meeting with Jonathon Odell focused me on the reason I turned to writing in the first place, helped me see, again, the power available to the writer. \u00a0My cousin Kathy Steffey&#8217;s husband, Steve, is a metal sculptor and he advised long ago that I put up a sign in my study: \u00a0I am an artist; I will not quit. \u00a0Good advice.<\/p>\n<p>After I learned Jonathon got the lead to his agent from spending time at the Loft, I wondered why I&#8217;ve never spent any time there. \u00a0I wandered through their website this morning, looking at programs and resources aimed exactly at me. \u00a0The feeling was strange, a bit mystified (at myself), a bit ashamed. \u00a0Hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>This whole process of writing has been so hit and miss, fits and starts. \u00a0I&#8217;ve not handled it well and my resolution for the new Celtic year, starting on the Celtic New Year, Samain, October 31st, is to get cracking on the learning, networking side of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Autumn) Moon Meeting with Jonathon Odell focused me on the reason I turned to writing in the first place, helped me see, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39841,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions\/39841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}