{"id":247,"date":"2011-03-25T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:15:28","slug":"why-a-writing-retreat-when-i-write-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/why-a-writing-retreat-when-i-write-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a writing retreat when I write every day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, This is going to have to be a short post because I&#8217;ve got to get packing for a novel writing retreat. I&#8217;m one of those writers who writes almost every day. I&#8217;ve been told I&#8217;m prolific and so people are surprised I still try to go to retreats, especially retreats where I&#8217;m there to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I attend retreats because my well tends to become filled with the clutter of daily life. In my case, that clutter can be students&#8217; stories rather than my own as well as family matters, administrative issues, busy-ness, and lately March madness &#8212;\u00a0I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s true. You can&#8217;t live in my house without developing a bad\u00a0case of diehard college basketball fan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;ve only got a few minutes before my laptop is charged, my bags are packed and I&#8217;m heading to the retreat center. The rest of you &#8212; write well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, This is going to have to be a short post because I&#8217;ve got to get packing for a novel writing retreat. I&#8217;m one of those writers who writes almost every day. I&#8217;ve been told I&#8217;m prolific and so people are surprised I still try to go to retreats, especially retreats where I&#8217;m there &#8230; <a title=\"Why a writing retreat when I write every day?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/why-a-writing-retreat-when-i-write-every-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why a writing retreat when I write every day?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}