{"id":780,"date":"2015-01-07T01:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:37:02","slug":"i-am-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/hump-day-wednesday\/i-am-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/magic.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-781\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/magic-300x287.jpeg\" alt=\"magic\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/magic-300x287.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/magic.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of my favorite things about creating stories to share with you is the magic that seemingly springs out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So I&#8217;m writing away, working from a synopsis, which is like a road map that tells me where I should go in order to reach that optimistic ending that is the payoff for all the suffering I put my characters through. Oh, yeah, I so enjoy making them suffer. :- )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As I labor to bring the story in my head to life on the page, suddenly the plot takes a turn I never planned for. Always an enjoyable surprise. Or the characters take charge and speak or act in totally unexpected and unanticipated ways. I love when this happens! Mind you, I don&#8217;t let them veer off on tangents too far removed from their story. Otherwise, you readers tend get frustrated&#8211;and so do I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But when I trust them enough to give them free rein, amazing things happen. For that, I am beyond grateful.<\/p>\n<p>I love my job, and it&#8217;s time I got back to it and let the magic unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you magic, and until next time,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ann<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Connect with me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ann-Roth\/290533377720298?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">Facebook:<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/\"> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnnRothAuthorPage<\/a><br \/>\nFollow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ann_roth\">Twitter:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ann_roth\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ann_roth<\/a><br \/>\nStop by my website: <a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/\">www.annroth.net<\/a><br \/>\nSign up for my newsletter: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1zgiKfG\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1zgiKfG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about creating stories to share with you is the magic that seemingly springs out of the blue. So I&#8217;m writing away, working from a synopsis, which is like a road map that tells me where I should go in order to reach that optimistic ending that is the payoff for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[350,4,347,127,345,349,346,348,344,343,40],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hump-day-wednesday","category-musings","tag-amazing","tag-ann-roth","tag-creating","tag-magic","tag-plot","tag-road-map","tag-surprise","tag-synopsis","tag-write","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}