{"id":9017,"date":"2014-03-17T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2014-03-15T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:08:29","slug":"the-wrong-paths-writers-can-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/the-wrong-paths-writers-can-take\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Paths Writers Can Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about the wrong paths writers can sometimes take in life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Picture this: I was twenty-four, it was my first day working for a top London law firm, and I already knew I\u2019d made the biggest mistake of my life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I blame Tenerife. Two years prior, my housemate and I had flown to the Canary Islands for a long weekend. It was a long way to go just for a weekend and it felt decadent. So decadent, I wanted more\u2026 But how would an editorial assistant for a small Birmingham publishing company afford such decadence on a regular basis?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out what happened next by reading the rest of that guest blog post <a title=\"CSFG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csfg.org.au\/2014\/03\/15\/how-to-get-the-writers-life-you-want\/\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about the wrong paths writers can sometimes take in life&#8230; Picture this: I was twenty-four, it was my first day working for a top London law firm, and I already knew I\u2019d made the biggest mistake of my\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/the-wrong-paths-writers-can-take\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[709,852],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-advice","tag-writers","tag-wrong-paths"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}