{"id":3791,"date":"2009-04-01T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2009-04-01T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:39:21","slug":"the-life-of-a-writer-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"The life of a writer is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1995, we moved to New Orleans for eleven months and I met a guy in a writer’s workshop at Tulane. Then he moved to San Francisco where his sister lived. Then I moved back to San Francisco. I joined a writer’s workshop there and the woman who ran it was such a nutball. In one of the sessions we had to review submissions from other writers wanting to join the group. And a manuscript I read was so funny that I highly recommended the writer join. The group leader said no way, it’s not good enough<\/em>. Her manuscript was so tedious and we had to endure it each session. So I said see you, wouldn’t want to be you, and started my own group, phoned the guy and he joined my group. <\/p>\n

That’s how I met Robert. One of the most talented writers I’ve ever known personally. Mark my words, one day you are going to be reading one of his books. <\/p>\n

Last night I caught up with him here in Chicago where he now calls home – he’s getting married, he’s working hard, and he is still writing funny stories. <\/p>\n

It takes a lot of fortitude to keep writing in the face of other demands on your time. I told him I have turned into a blogger and haven’t written one tiny bit of fiction in a million years. Well, bloggers are people too, I told him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1995, we moved to New Orleans for eleven months and I met a guy in a writer’s workshop at Tulane. Then he moved to San Francisco where his sister lived. Then I moved back to San Francisco. I joined a writer’s workshop there and the woman who ran it was such a nutball. In one of the sessions we had to review submissions from other writers wanting to join the group. And a manuscript… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}