{"id":435,"date":"2009-01-24T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-01-24T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T02:25:21","slug":"links-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/links-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in over my head trying to finish The Book, so please excuse the quietness around here. I&#8217;ll be human again next week. I hope.<\/p>\n<p>The current challenge is writing the final scenes and drawing together the various plot and character threads &#8211; if not into a nice pretty bow, at least into some sort of neat, sea-worthy knot. (These characters aren&#8217;t really the pretty bow types \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 )<\/p>\n<p>So while I&#8217;m busy doing that, you might want to hop on over and read Barbara Samuel&#8217;s recent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancingtheblog.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romancing the Blog<\/a>, about not apologising for reading romance, and ways of dealing with the snide comments about the genre &#8211; and the frustrations they cause us.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is both a\u00a0 wonderful writer and wonderful person. I first met her in Dallas a couple of years ago, when I had the privilege of moderating her workshop at the RWAmerica conference. Then she was one of the guests at last year&#8217;s RWAustralia conference, where I attended another of her workshops, and chatted with her a few times. Her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarasamuel.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Writer Afoot<\/a>, is one of my regular blog reads &#8211; writing, food, travelling, and all in Barbara&#8217;s beautiful writing. I highly recommend it!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a few grey days lately, so not much in the way of photos from my late afternoon walks with the dogs. But here&#8217;s one from a week or so back &#8211; taken from the north-west corner of our property, looking &#8216;over the fence&#8217; where our place joins two other, much larger properties. I&#8217;m not sure if the grass is greener over there, but I always get an itch to climb through the fence, and explore what&#8217;s in the bush beyond the immediate view&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090112northwestcorner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-436\" title=\"20090112northwestcorner\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090112northwestcorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090112northwestcorner.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090112northwestcorner-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The dogs would love to go through the fence, too, to chase the critters on the other side. There&#8217;s often sheep in one paddock, sometimes cattle in another, and twice we&#8217;ve seen an emu &#8211; not very common around here &#8211; just over the fence on the right there. They don&#8217;t know if the grass is greener over there, but it&#8217;s definitely smellier, as far as they&#8217;re concerned!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in over my head trying to finish The Book, so please excuse the quietness around here. I&#8217;ll be human again next week. I hope. The current challenge is writing the final scenes and drawing together the various plot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/links-of-interest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-photos","category-romance-genre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}