{"id":11891,"date":"2017-03-27T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2017-03-27T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:10:26","slug":"touchstone-a-continual-source-of-writing-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/touchstone-a-continual-source-of-writing-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchstone: a continual source of writing inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11892\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today I&#8217;m over on Leife Shallcross&#8217;s blog talking about my writing touchstone \u2013 the one thing that has inspired and will always inspire me to write. I reveal how I first found that source of inspiration and where, why the experience resonated so strongly with me, how my touchstone reflects other things that interest me as a writer, and how my relationship with my touchstone has changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fascinating interview to answer, thank you for asking Leife! It took me back to when I was a young publishing assistant, newly single and in need of some magic to enliven my life. I found that magic, and it&#8217;s never left me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Read more about my touchstone in Leife&#8217;s interview <a href=\"https:\/\/leifeshallcross.com\/2017\/03\/26\/touchstones-zena-shapter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m over on Leife Shallcross&#8217;s blog talking about my writing touchstone \u2013 the one thing that has inspired and will always inspire me to write. I reveal how I first found that source of inspiration and where, why the experience resonated so strongly with me, how my touchstone reflects\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/touchstone-a-continual-source-of-writing-inspiration\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[284,372,1034,497,1753,1754,712],"class_list":["post-11891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writer-advice","tag-inspiration","tag-leife-shallcross","tag-magic","tag-publishing","tag-touchstone","tag-travel","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shard-of-glass-Leife-Shallcross.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}