{"id":869,"date":"2014-06-01T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2014-06-01T21:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T04:35:02","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/excuses-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many people who have a blog, I started off with the intention of writing regularly. Like many bloggers, life and intentions collide and I have found myself, at times, slacking off. Happily, there is the annual Freelance Success\/Word Count Blogathon<\/a> to get me back on track. Usually, though, I don’t go seven months without writing.<\/p>\n

I think I have a reasonable couple of excuses this time. In December, my dad had a stroke, from which he recovered very quickly, but which left many others in the family in a tizzy. Because I write about healthcare, I became the point person to investigate treatments and doctors and outcomes. A tizzy of phone calls and emails greeted me daily for more than a month. But that only gets me through January. Why didn’t I start writing again immediately?<\/p>\n

Gentle reader, I have been writing. I’ve been workshopping an essay and the first three chapters of my memoir. Thanks to the wonderful classes available through Hugo House<\/a>, I’ve submitted an essay to the New York Times Modern Love<\/a> column (cross your fingers) and have nearly completed a book proposal for my memoir.<\/p>\n

But the time for daily writing has returned, and the Blogathon is the impetus to start. A lot of what I’ll be writing about is reading and books, and writing, and books about writing. And also turning 50 because I do that in 11 more days.<\/p>\n

So welcome back. As always, feel free to ask questions and leave opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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