{"id":405,"date":"2007-11-06T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/11\/the-writing-lif.html"},"modified":"2007-11-06T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:07:28","slug":"the-writing-lif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/11\/the-writing-lif.html","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new post up on my other blog: An Authors’ Blog<\/a> that’s worth reading entitled, "What a Writer’s Life is Really Like." Click here for the post<\/a>. 7 more days until the first draft of my first novel, Scared<\/em><\/strong>, is due. What am I doing writing a novel?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new post up on my other blog: An Authors’ Blog that’s worth reading entitled, "What a Writer’s Life is Really Like." Click here for the post. 7 more days until the first draft of my first novel, Scared, is due. What am I doing writing a novel?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Writing Life - Red Letters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/11\/the-writing-lif.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Writing Life - Red Letters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There’s a new post up on my other blog: An Authors’ Blog that’s worth reading entitled, "What a Writer’s Life is Really Like." 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