{"id":121,"date":"2008-11-27T18:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-11-27T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:32:59","slug":"writers-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Writers’ Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting little tidbit. Author, playwright, editor, teacher, and promoter (and wife of author Peter May) Janice Hally has a fascinating feature about writers’ rituals posted on her “Suite 101” site. (http:\/\/research-writing-techniques.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/writers_rituals_donis_casey)<\/a>. (FYI – I don’t know what I just did with that link. Apparently it’s on there twice, but I’m afraid to mess with it, so good luck)<\/p>\n

Many mystery authors have posted their rituals on the site, and it is entirely fascinating to see how we all go about the Craft. I offered to name a character for whoever knows the year of the Big Blizzard, which also happens to be the year I was born. I’ll give you a hint. I don’t mean the blizzard of 1888. No relatives or childhood friends need apply. <\/p>\n

I guess I should have said I’ll name a character after the first person to name that year. I may end up writing a book set in 1918 with a bunch of characters named Tiffany, Pylot, Apple, and Madison. Perhaps I’ll be inspired to start a contemporary series. A Sci-Fi Romance? I’ll let you know if things get out of hand, but until then I’ll be interested to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting little tidbit. Author, playwright, editor, teacher, and promoter (and wife of author Peter May) Janice Hally has a fascinating feature about writers’ rituals posted on her “Suite 101” site. (http:\/\/research-writing-techniques.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/writers_rituals_donis_casey). (FYI – I don’t know what I just did with that link. Apparently it’s on there twice, but I’m afraid to mess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}