{"id":3117,"date":"2013-11-12T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:04:43","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"angelnotes\"Visiting family in Minnesota this past weekend, I was delighted when my little nephew presented me with a gift: a winged figurine called \u201cCourage.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s a sweet little guy in preschool who knows me primarily as the aunt who tickles, and I was touched that he thought of me at all, let alone in terms of spontaneously picking out a present for me.\u00a0 And courage, of all things!\u00a0 It\u2019s exactly what I need just now.<\/p>\n

My latest step of going forward with my writing has involved deleting the last third of my novel.\u00a0 I came to this realization when I was discussing the book with my editor last week, and now I\u2019m searching forward into new, unexplored territory.\u00a0 Each book I write seems to involve its own process, and here I am inventing another one.\u00a0 For now, I\u2019ve physically stepped back from the draft that lives in my computer.\u00a0 I\u2019m working with pen on paper, writing notes and questions, spreading out the pages around my new courage figurine to look for patterns.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve followed my blog for any length of time, you\u2019ve probably seen I spend a lot of time not knowing how ideas will come together.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing again, so it\u2019s familiar, but this time it\u2019s also new, because these are new ideas that aren\u2019t yet coming together.\u00a0 That\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visiting family in Minnesota this past weekend, I was delighted when my little nephew presented me with a gift: a winged figurine called \u201cCourage.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s a sweet little guy in preschool who knows me primarily as the aunt who tickles, and I was touched that he thought of me at all, let alone in terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[246,37],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-project-next","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}