{"id":518,"date":"2021-03-25T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/?p=518"},"modified":"2021-03-26T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:46:44","slug":"my-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"My Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=post\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I have wanted to be a writer for many, many years but it requires a discipline and a commitment to sitting in front of a computer screen that I cannot muster. Every now and then I have a moment of inspiration and I sit down and write, but it&#8217;s been a few years now since I have felt the muses stir within. I write a diary most evenings, but even that has trailed off over the last year of the dreaded lockdown. There&#8217;s little you can say when little happens in your day to day life, and contaminating my diary with the anger I have felt about the political state of our country isn&#8217;t on the cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have, though, written my first novel (Edwin&#8217;s Ghost) which I eventually finished back in 2019 after starting it a fair few years ago and I have another one on the back burner. In fact I have countless stories in my head, but time is never on my side to write them and, as I said, it requires a commitment that I haven&#8217;t got. There are too many other pressing things in my life that need my attention. Maybe one day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wanted to be a writer for many, many years but it requires a discipline and a commitment to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[42,23,41,40],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mywriting","tag-blog","tag-edwins-ghost","tag-ghost-story","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helencritchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}