{"id":39212,"date":"2023-04-24T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39212"},"modified":"2023-04-22T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:36:30","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-phyllis-theroux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/a-writing-quote-from-phyllis-theroux\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote From Phyllis Theroux"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39214\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Journal-Keeper-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Journal-Keeper-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Journal-Keeper-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Journal-Keeper.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Writing is a bit like swimming in the ocean. You have to get beyond the wave line into the depths. But the fear of not getting back to the shore; of drifting out to sea, can make the swimmer\/writer panic.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>~ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/authors\/Phyllis-Theroux\/16359963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phyllis Theroux<\/a>, <em>The Journal Keeper<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p>This quote definitely resonated, the first time I read it &#8212; although I also thought, and still do, that it applies to any endeavor that takes us beyond what, until then, have been our life&#8217;s norms and safety barriers. Creative endeavours, yes, but also starting a business, or training for an endurance event, or embarking on an overseas trip to somewhere that not necessarily &#8216;just like home.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The Wall Of Night<\/em><\/strong><\/a> series readers, I should have an update for you this Thursday 27, or failing that, next Monday 1 May.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, whatever you&#8217;re embarked upon this week, I hope your endeavours are crowned with success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Writing is a bit like swimming in the ocean. You have to get beyond the wave line into the depths. But the fear of not getting back to the shore; of drifting out to sea, can make the swimmer\/writer panic.&#8221; ~ Phyllis Theroux, The Journal Keeper ~*~ This quote definitely resonated, the first time I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39212","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=39212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41006,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39212\/revisions\/41006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}