{"id":759,"date":"2013-01-22T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindythomson.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/22\/10-reasons-im-a-writer"},"modified":"2013-01-22T01:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T01:13:00","slug":"10-reasons-im-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/10-reasons-im-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons I&#8217;m a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com.ivchost3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0ea31-stranger_than_fiction-13.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com.ivchost3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0ea31-stranger_than_fiction-13.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Scene from the movie Stranger Than Fiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>1. I have an office: computer, novels, printer\/scanner\/fax, books on writing, a print dictionary that I never use because I get it online, pencils, legal pads, back-up drive, paintings of typewriters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2. I have contracts in my file. Even ones that are ten years old. I keep them to prove I&#8217;m a writer.<\/p>\n<p>3. I belong to writers groups.<\/p>\n<p>4. I have a literary agent to represent me.<\/p>\n<p>5. I have tons of business cards from other writers, many of whom I can&#8217;t even remember meeting.<\/p>\n<p>6. I rarely leave my home.<\/p>\n<p>7. I hear voices. I really do! And it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>8. I have a subscription to Writer&#8217;s Digest.<\/p>\n<p>9. I have a cup warmer right by my computer screen (meaning I&#8217;m there a lot.)<\/p>\n<p>10. I do the only thing that really matters: I write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene from the movie Stranger Than Fiction 1. I have an office: computer, novels, printer\/scanner\/fax, books on writing, a print dictionary that I never use because I get it online, pencils, legal pads, back-up drive, paintings of typewriters&#8230; 2. I have contracts in my file. Even ones that are ten years old. I keep them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}