{"id":40808,"date":"2023-01-26T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40808"},"modified":"2023-01-22T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T08:17:24","slug":"thirty-years-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/thirty-years-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Years: Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, author <a href=\"https:\/\/kateforsyth.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kate Forsyth<\/a> was asked how long it took her to write a book. This is her answer:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;It depends on the length of the book &amp; on what challenges are thrown up by each story &#8230; One of my books took thirty years of writing, re-writing, discarding it, resurrecting it, re-writing it again&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say I found this immensely reassuring, at the same time as I was thinking, &#8220;thirty years: wow!&#8221; Then again, the WALL world has been with me for at least that long (in fact, it&#8217;s longer), but I didn&#8217;t embark on writing it until years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, author Kate Forsyth was asked how long it took her to write a book. This is her answer: &#8220;It depends on the length of the book &amp; on what challenges are thrown up by each story &#8230; One of my books took thirty years of writing, re-writing, discarding it, resurrecting it, re-writing it again&#8230;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40808","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=40808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40811,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40808\/revisions\/40811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}