{"id":858,"date":"2008-05-28T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2008-05-28T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:06:00","slug":"why-i-heart-writing-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/28\/why-i-heart-writing-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Heart Writing Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD12l_-ECWI\/AAAAAAAABeg\/5mL_MbQXSpA\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD12l_-ECWI\/AAAAAAAABeg\/5mL_MbQXSpA\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So a bit of confession this morning: I&#8217;d been having a bear of a time with my latest book proposal last week.  I spent part of the week avoiding it and doing other things.  Then I went to the beach for the weekend with my computer (and with Marco) and tried again.   And then my writers&#8217; group met last night and reaffirmed my faith.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a little shout out to my writers&#8217; group, which is named Matilda, after the cat at the Algonquin Hotel, which is where we had our first meeting.  And a shout out, too, to the Invisible Institute, my other writers group, which has been meeting now for 4 years.  Yes, I am in two of these groups.  Because writing groups keep me going, and this girl just can&#8217;t get enough.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m at it, a shout out to all the writers groups and communities out there that keep us writers going.  Writing is SO much better when not tried alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a bit of confession this morning: I&#8217;d been having a bear of a time with my latest book proposal last week. I spent part of the week avoiding it and doing other things. Then I went to the beach for the weekend with my computer (and with Marco) and tried again. And then my [&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-858","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\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}