{"id":19367,"date":"2021-01-25T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=19367"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:10:10","slug":"tales-from-shell-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/tales-from-shell-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My dad as a young teen, illustrated by Paige McLaughlin. See her work at paigemclaughlinart.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For many weeks, Paige and I have been helping my dad work on a big project for the family. He has typed a memoir of his childhood adventures in the rolling hills and rock formations near his home in Pittsburg, CA. Paige is illustrating the stories and I am editing and formatting the book. We are mailing a few stories each week to my siblings and their children, with the goal to print and bind a complete version by early April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reminds me of a project that I began in January 2020 to write memories of my childhood. I wrote about 15 or 20 pages before I set it aside. Living in close quarters during the past 10 months has made it a little harder to focus on writing. Plus, I struggle to define a work space. The desks are being used, the kitchen table must be cleared often, and I need extreme quiet. This project with my dad keeps some of my desire to write alive, and inspires me to pick up old projects and not find excuses to delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am making a little progress on creating a portable workspace for myself. I need to be present a lot of the time, not hidden away in an office. So, my work world revolves around a book bag and lightweight storage containers more than a single desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen King, in his book about writing, suggests a writer should not have a massive desk that dominates a room because writing is not the primary thing. Living with your family is more important. He thinks a smaller desk in a corner is best. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many weeks, Paige and I have been helping my dad work on a big project for the family. He has typed a memoir of his childhood adventures in the rolling hills and rock formations near his home in Pittsburg, CA. Paige is illustrating the stories and I am editing and formatting the book. We … Continue reading Workspace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,13,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-extended-family","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19367"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19399,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions\/19399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}