{"id":118,"date":"2010-10-22T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/turning-points\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T03:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T03:51:00","slug":"turning-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/turning-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Points"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last night at book club we were discussing life-changing moments. I didn’t voice a comment – mostly because I couldn’t think of much to say – but I’ve been mulling over today what I might have answered. <\/p>\n

I can think of a few obvious life-changing moments: college, marriage, the birth of my first child. Then there’s others that are more personal, less obvious: losing a baby, supporting my husband as he started his own business, and writing my first book.<\/p>\n

The turning point, the life-changing moment in my writing was that first book. I’d wanted to publish\/write a book for a long time, but the year my oldest was born, my husband gave me some plotting software that I used to start writing my first book. <\/p>\n

At that point, I’d never been to a writers conference. I knew very little about publishing and even about writing a novel. I read The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel<\/em> (which is actually a great book) and some other writing books and I learned as I went! I wrote the book and I finished it. I became a writer. That was one of my life-changing moments.<\/p>\n

What moments in your writing journey have been turning points for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night at book club we were discussing life-changing moments. I didn’t voice a comment – mostly because I couldn’t think of much to say – but I’ve been mulling over today what I might have answered. I can think of a few obvious life-changing moments: college, marriage, the birth of my first child. Then there’s others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}