{"id":1296,"date":"2017-09-21T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2017-09-21T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:55:29","slug":"writing-group-and-accountability-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Writing group and accountability update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writing group that I started with a friend had its second meeting a few weeks ago. It was good to get together and talk about writing with like minded people. One of the ideas a member came up with was to set our own targets and then be held to them in the group, sort of a metaphorical kick up the butt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1299\" src=\"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" \/>I liked the idea and I set myself a target, this has had two effects, I have actually sat down to write and am about half way through the first draft of the story. The second point however is that I haven&#8217;t kept to the target. Now although I would have liked to stick to what I said I would do I am at least glad that this has got me doing some proper writing.\u00a0 Although I cannot go to the next meeting I am going to put up the post for the targets for the next meeting and this time I am going to put more effort into meeting it.<\/p>\n<p>All in all it was good to get together with some other writers even though in that actual group we didn&#8217;t do much writing, it was more a meet and greet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writing group that I started with a friend had its second meeting a few weeks ago. It was good to get together and talk about writing with like minded people. One of the ideas a member came up with was to set our own targets and then be held to them in the group,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}