{"id":1744,"date":"2022-09-21T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:12:49","slug":"fare-thee-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/21\/fare-thee-very-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Fare Thee Very Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First off, I\u2019m going to be signing books at two book festivals in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley that are coming up in the next few weeks. Details are here on the website on the Appearances page. And there will be a couple of events coming up for my new book,<em> Sparrows in the Wind<\/em>, which will be released on October 25th, so please keep an eye on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second off, I\u2019ve decided to stop posting to the blog for a while at least, leaving open the possibility of starting up again. I\u2019ve loved writing to you here for over thirteen years, and I\u2019ve been delighted to watch the community that\u2019s developed and how helpful you\u2019ve been to each other. By now, though, I think I\u2019ve touched on every major writing issue more than once, which you can search for right here. And I\u2019ve invented enough prompts to set off a lifetime of writing. Please know that the prompts are for you to use\u2014you don\u2019t have to worry about copyright issues if you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, I\u2019m going to leave the blog open on this website for you to continue conversations, and I\u2019ll keep an eye on what comes in. A special shoutout here to Christie V Powell, who has commented often and always helpfully. Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who, like me, are worrywarts, I\u2019m fine\u2014and busy, working on a new book (the medieval murder mystery) and getting used to and loving our new puppy, Tess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thread that\u2019s run through most of my posts on every writing topic has been the damaging effects of being too judgmental about our writing. Self-criticism hobbles us and gets in the way of finishing our stories. We\u2014you!\u2014need to find a way to put the judgments aside. Could be a spell that you recite every day before starting. Could be writing down the criticism on a slip of paper and stuffing the paper into a piggy bank. Could be hanging \u201cFor Fun\u201d signs around your laptop or wherever you write. Or something else, which you can suggest in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every writer on earth makes mistakes. There\u2019s no such thing as a perfect book. We get better as we go along, and as we revise\u2014the most important part in my writing universe. And I can\u2019t end without saying that lists of possibilities are this writer\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun, and save what you write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I\u2019m going to be signing books at two book festivals in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley that are coming up in the next few weeks. Details are here on the website on the Appearances page. And there will be a couple of events coming up for my new book, Sparrows in the Wind, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}