{"id":124,"date":"2014-10-29T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/29\/i-survived-my-first-surrey-international-writers-conference-siwc14\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T22:26:00","slug":"i-survived-my-first-surrey-international-writers-conference-siwc14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/29\/i-survived-my-first-surrey-international-writers-conference-siwc14\/","title":{"rendered":"I Survived My First Surrey International Writers&#8217; Conference #SiWC14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the proof, as usual, is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&amp;src=typd\">on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ty8QBUEsddk\/VFFJcGBGXdI\/AAAAAAABwQc\/b9Or954eayk\/s1600\/siwc14_tweets.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ty8QBUEsddk\/VFFJcGBGXdI\/AAAAAAABwQc\/b9Or954eayk\/s400\/siwc14_tweets.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&amp;src=typd\">twitter.com\/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&#038;src=typd<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>Highlights included: finally meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scribofelidae\">Stephanie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/382138\">David<\/a> in person, after many online writing Hangouts; seeing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballybran.org\/vp\/08xii\/\">VPXII<\/a> classmate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katrinaarcher.com\/\">Katrina<\/a> again and getting an autographed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00MAFNNTS\/curtiscchensfree\">her book<\/a>; learning about book publishing contracts and romance novels from literary agent <a href=\"http:\/\/awfulagent.com\/agents\/lisa-rodgers\">Lisa<\/a>; and hearing the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Writer_DG\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a> read three different &#8220;wedding night&#8221; scenes aloud in a room of appreciative listeners (mostly women, natch).<\/p>\n<p>If I can make my schedule and budget work for 2015, I&#8217;ll definitely go back. And next time I&#8217;ll wear the tux on Saturday. <b>#nocontextforyou<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the proof, as usual, is on Twitter: twitter.com\/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&#038;src=typd Highlights included: finally meeting Stephanie and David in person, after many online writing Hangouts; seeing my VPXII classmate Katrina again and getting an autographed copy of her book; learning about book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78,15,49,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abroad","category-achievementunlocked","category-doinitrite","category-theiinmeat","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}