{"id":144,"date":"2009-07-12T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-07-12T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T22:57:19","slug":"writer-at-work-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/writer-at-work-home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer at Work: Home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always strange coming back from a retreat, and remembering that oh yes, things like e-mail and day jobs and other non-writing things do after all still exist.  <\/p>\n<p>The retreat itself went quite spectacularly.  It was our largest yet, with eight of us gathering together in what turned out to be quite a spacious cottage, on 13 acres of land all for us.  And thanks to our photojournalist member, I have much visual documentation!<\/p>\n<p>We explored the rather interesting grounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/2009retreatswing.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/2009retreatcross.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Roasted marshmallows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/2009retreatfire.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And of course did much writing out in glorious nature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/2009retreatme.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My goal was to get the first 25,000 words of the japan book done; I managed to make it to just over 30K, so I am a happy writer.  First draft half-done in five days!  We all agreed we need to do this retreat thing more often.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The obligatory group picture:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/2009retreatgroup.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always strange coming back from a retreat, and remembering that oh yes, things like e-mail and day jobs and other non-writing things do after all still exist. The retreat itself went quite spectacularly. It was our largest yet, with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/writer-at-work-home-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/144"}],"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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}