{"id":55,"date":"2021-12-02T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:58:50","slug":"does-this-count-as-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/does-this-count-as-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this count as writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_8956-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_8956-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_8956-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_8956-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_8956-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much about writing a book that doesn&#8217;t involve writing at all. At the front end of it there&#8217;s the dreaming, the planning, the researching, the READING&#8230;. and more reading. In the middle there is an awful lot of second-guessing and scratching out. And now that I have actually managed to write an entire novel, I&#8217;m discovering a whole load of new non-writing tasks, including re-learning how to make a website! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of snooping online lately to see what other authors do online, and it has given me a ton of ideas about fun ways to interact with other writers, readers and publishers. I know it won&#8217;t happen overnight, but I would love to see this site, along with my social media feeds, form part of a meaningful literary community. So let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. The photos have basically nothing to do with the posts. I just like sharing photos of my garden, which is one of my happy places.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much about writing a book that doesn&#8217;t involve writing at all. At the front end of it there&#8217;s the dreaming, the planning, the researching, the READING&#8230;. and more reading. In the middle there is an awful lot of second-guessing and scratching out. And now that I have actually managed to write an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/does-this-count-as-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does this count as writing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}