{"id":3193,"date":"2019-09-04T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjmaclayne.com\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2019-09-04T07:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:09:51","slug":"finding-a-place-to-write-iwsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjmaclayne.com\/?p=3193","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Place to Write #IWSG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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September 4 question – If you could pick one place in the world to sit and write your next story, where would it be and why?<\/strong><\/div>\n
The awesome co-hosts for the September 4 posting of the IWSG are\u00a0Gwen Gardner,<\/a>Doreen McGettigan,<\/a>\u00a0Tyrean Martinson,<\/a>\u00a0Chemist Ken,<\/a>\u00a0andCathrina Constantine!<\/a><\/div>\n
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There’s this little lake I know, not exactly in the mountains, but in the high plains. The altitude is about 8000 feet. It’s got a wonderful view of several mountain ranges, depending upon which direction you look. On a normal days, there’s at the most, three or four people there- more cows than people, but they are on the other side. The cows, that is.<\/div>\n
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Ducks, geese and the occasional seagull swim on the lake’s surface. Along the shoreline, songbirds play hide-and-go-seek among the bushes. Their songs mingle with the lowing of the cattle.<\/div>\n
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There’s not an electric plugin to be had, so once the battery on the laptop is dead, it’ll be writing with pen and paper. The nearest town, population under 600, is fifteen miles away.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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But to sit there in the shade of one of the few trees (or bring my own) and write! No distractions, no cell phone service, no internet, no one bothering me. That would be heaven.<\/div>\n
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So I’m not going to tell you where it is. You know the song…you call someplace paradise, you kiss it goodbye. I’m not ready to for that.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 September 4 question – If you could pick one place in the world to sit and write your next story, where would it be and why? The awesome co-hosts for the September 4 posting of the IWSG are\u00a0Gwen Gardner,Doreen McGettigan,\u00a0Tyrean Martinson,\u00a0Chemist Ken,\u00a0andCathrina Constantine! \u00a0 There’s this little lake I… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,8,37],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iwsg","tag-iamwriting","tag-iwsg","tag-writingcommunity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t