{"id":140,"date":"2009-07-07T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-07-07T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T16:08:01","slug":"writer-at-work-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/writer-at-work-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer at Work: Retreat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: I will be away without internet access from the afternoon of the 7th until July 12th, so if you comment or e-mail me during that time I won’t be able to respond right away.<\/b> I will try to get back to everyone ASAP after I get back.<\/p>\n

Why will I be away without internet access? Well, it has something to do with this:<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

Every summer my in-person writers group<\/a> rents a cottage, and we all head up there for several days to write and talk about writing and eat very yummy food (one of our members is an avid cook \ud83d\ude00 ) and when we have a few spare moments do cottage-y stuff like canoe and swim. But mostly it is writing. I find a lovely glade like so:<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

Haul over a lawn chair, open up my laptop, and start tapping away. <\/p>\n

It’s amazing how much you can get done with few distractions and no other responsibilities! Last year I wrote nearly half of the first draft of LOKI’S BOY in the five days we were up there. This year I’m hoping to make similar progress on the Japan book. I find retreat writing is especially good for first drafts because I prefer to get them done as quickly as possible (gotta get the story down on the page so I can start fixing it! heh).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, it’ll be quiet here on the blog, but you can still participate in the current giveaway<\/a> or bid on my critique offer<\/a> — Cynthea’s auctions end tomorrow!<\/p>\n

Hope you all have a great week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: I will be away without internet access from the afternoon of the 7th until July 12th, so if you comment or e-mail me during that time I won’t be able to respond right away. I will try to get … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}