{"id":25470,"date":"2014-05-01T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=25470"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T08:49:02","slug":"points-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/points-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Points Of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I read two posts that touch, in their very different ways, on the value of creative writing courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/tuesday-poem-a-host-of-sparrows-by-joanna-preston\/summer-king-the\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20890\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-20890\" title=\"Summer King, The\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Summer-King-The-101x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Summer-King-The-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Summer-King-The-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Summer-King-The.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a>The first is my friend and fellow poet, <a href=\"http:\/\/jopre.wordpress.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Preston&#8217;s<\/a>, thoughtful and in-depth look at:<\/p>\n<header><a href=\"http:\/\/jopre.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/25\/some-reasons-why-creative-writing-classes-might-actually-be-good-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Reasons why Creative Writing Classes Might Actually Be Good\u00a0Things<\/a><\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header>I enjoyed this post and feel you may, too: so hie thee and take\u00a0 a look. \ud83d\ude42<\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/points-of-view\/americanelsewhere_tp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-25472\" title=\"americanelsewhere_tp\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/americanelsewhere_tp-101x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/americanelsewhere_tp-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/americanelsewhere_tp.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a><\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header>Fellow SFF (but otherwise unknown to me) author, <a href=\"http:\/\/robertjacksonbennett.wordpress.com\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Jackson Bennett&#8217;s<\/a> post on the writing process is in a lighter, but no less apposite, vein and touches on several aspects of writing including courses. Check out what he has to say (again, worth it!) in:<\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header><a href=\"http:\/\/robertjacksonbennett.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/21\/making-sandwiches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Making Sandwiches<\/a><\/header>\n<header>And enjoy the rest of your day. \ud83d\ude09<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I read two posts that touch, in their very different ways, on the value of creative writing courses. The first is my friend and fellow poet, Joanna Preston&#8217;s, thoughtful and in-depth look at: Some Reasons why Creative Writing Classes Might Actually Be Good\u00a0Things I enjoyed this post and feel you may, too: so hie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25470"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25484,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470\/revisions\/25484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}