{"id":41548,"date":"2023-10-16T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41548"},"modified":"2023-10-15T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T03:22:34","slug":"a-writing-time-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/a-writing-time-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing &#8220;Time-In&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve kept this very quiet, but for the past few months I&#8217;ve been having time out from my normal writing milieu and concentrated &#8220;time-in&#8221; at a residence in Auckland (different city &#8212; the big smoke, in fact! &#8212; and island: North as opposed to South), where I&#8217;ve had the sole use of an apartment and where all I&#8217;ve had to do is get up every day and focus on the book, the book, the book.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41550\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41550\" class=\"wp-image-41550 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-City-skyline_evening-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-City-skyline_evening-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-City-skyline_evening-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-City-skyline_evening-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-City-skyline_evening-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City skylines featured, including views to the sky-tower.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yep, nirvana, really. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41552\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41552\" class=\"wp-image-41552 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-09-20-Sunset-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plus some fab sunsets, looking west<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I shall report back on the writing part in a later post, but today is just to let you in on the secret, albeit after the event, and share a few pics of my Auckland adventure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41553\" class=\"wp-image-41553 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Hobson-Mt-Wellington-View_small-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Hobson-Mt-Wellington-View_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Hobson-Mt-Wellington-View_small-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Hobson-Mt-Wellington-View_small.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vistas of Auckland&#8217;s famous volcanic cones&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>Why afterward? Well, you see, I wanted to take full advantage of the opportunity and keep all my attention on the book, hence the ninja author approach. (Hmm, ninja author &#8212; I like the ring of that!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41554\" class=\"wp-image-41554 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Eden_Waitemata-Harbour-2_small-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Eden_Waitemata-Harbour-2_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Eden_Waitemata-Harbour-2_small-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-10-01-Mt-Eden_Waitemata-Harbour-2_small.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;plus harbour views, incorporating more volcanic cones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, it was a great time-in with the story and the characters. I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41555\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41555\" class=\"wp-image-41555 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230916_Residency1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230916_Residency1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230916_Residency1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230916_Residency1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230916_Residency1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">But mostly, it was all the writing, the writing, the writing. #AsItShouldBe<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve kept this very quiet, but for the past few months I&#8217;ve been having time out from my normal writing milieu and concentrated &#8220;time-in&#8221; at a residence in Auckland (different city &#8212; the big smoke, in fact! &#8212; and island: North as opposed to South), where I&#8217;ve had the sole use of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41548","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=41548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41557,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41548\/revisions\/41557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}