{"id":102,"date":"2023-09-07T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2023-10-07T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T10:16:19","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a very long time is write for pleasure. Over the years I&#8217;ve written numerous reports, masterplans, press releases and other rather dry work-y stuff. What I really want to do now I&#8217;ve retired is to write purely for my own pleasure. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to have some good writing mentors and buddies &#8211; more of this in a future blog. This has spurred me on, and I&#8217;m now honing my writing skills in creative non-fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creative non-fiction is a pretty broad genre, taking in memoir, nature, travel, my family history and pretty much everything that interests me &#8211; and hopefully you too! I hope to be able to share some of this in my blogs as I write. In the meantime, I&#8217;m drafting up some early pieces, and doing lots of reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some of the books that have given me a bit of focus and direction, tried, tested and recommended by other (more successful) writers than me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1047\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-1024x419.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-1536x628.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-2048x838.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Writing-books-500x205.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of my inspiration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a very long time is write for pleasure. Over the years I&#8217;ve written numerous reports, masterplans, press releases and other rather dry work-y stuff. What I really want to do now I&#8217;ve retired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlife.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}