{"id":443,"date":"2007-11-29T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:22:00","slug":"writing-wisdom-from-mindy-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/29\/writing-wisdom-from-mindy-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Wisdom from Mindy Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R07pxzaxWeI\/AAAAAAAAAtU\/B_0Y5_vZ7dA\/s1600-h\/life_inside_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R07pxzaxWeI\/AAAAAAAAAtU\/B_0Y5_vZ7dA\/s200\/life_inside_cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Those <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/writing-life-being-at-home-with-being.html\">lines I posted from Rebecca Solnit<\/a> the other day (from her book <a>A Field Guide to Getting Lost<\/a>) generated additional wisdom from writer friends who have been there too, in the form of emails that lifted my spirits and made me re-commit to keep on going with the proposal writing process, even though I was feeling a bit at sea.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite responses came from a dear friend (and a gorgeous memoirist), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindylewislifeinside.com\/\">Mindy Lewis<\/a>, who teaches nonfiction writing at The Writers Voice and knows a thing or two about process.  Mindy and I shared tea and sympathy (and Zabar&#8217;srugelah) yesterday, and then she emailed me this, about cultivating the art of being at home in the unknown:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the spirit! So elusive, hard to get there and stay there, but always the right place to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YESSS.<\/p>\n<p>(Look for Mindy&#8217;s next oeuvre, an anthology, in 2009!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those lines I posted from Rebecca Solnit the other day (from her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost) generated additional wisdom from writer friends who have been there too, in the form of emails that lifted my spirits and made me re-commit to keep on going with the proposal writing process, even though I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}