{"id":5880,"date":"2015-04-19T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2015-04-19T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T06:00:11","slug":"fun-or-hard-work-a-bit-of-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=5880","title":{"rendered":"Fun or hard work? A bit of both."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5883\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/view-from-Farncombe-Estate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5883\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/view-from-Farncombe-Estate.jpg\" alt=\"The lovely view from the Farncombe estate - our writing retreat venue.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lovely view from the Farncombe estate &#8211; our writing retreat venue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I love writing retreats \u2013 it\u2019s just fabulous to be able to focus entirely on my writing and ignore all the cares of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the companionship of other writers and the advice of tutors helps too.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is a lovely location and good food \u2013 even perhaps a glass of wine.<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t you come with me?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been invited to be one of two tutors on a writing retreat in the beautiful Cotswolds. My fellow tutor is <a href=\"http:\/\/alison-may.co.uk\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">Alison May<\/a> \u2013 she writes fun romantic comedies and Shakespeare adaptations. Between us, we cover quite a range of writing styles.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weekend residential course \u2013 running from Friday October 2nd to Sunday October 4th and it\u2019s going to be at the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/farncombeconferencecentre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Farncombe Estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll spend some of the weekend in workshops \u2013 with discussions and exercises on plot and character development and point of view and dialogue. There\u2019ll be plenty of time to write, and I anticipate late night writerly discussions after dinner (the food is fabulous at the estate).<\/p>\n<p>Alison and I will also be doing one-on-one sessions with each author, including a critique of part of a work-in-progress submitted in advance.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t all be work \u2013 there\u2019ll be fun as well \u2013 because getting together with writers is fun \u2013 as well as inspirational.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really looking forward to the weekend \u2013 and if you\u2019d like to book a place on the course \u2013 there are more details <a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?page_id=1891\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u2026 (or click on the picture to the right of the screen).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love writing retreats \u2013 it\u2019s just fabulous to be able to focus entirely on my writing and ignore all the cares of the world. Of course, the companionship of other writers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-1wQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}