{"id":2047,"date":"2016-06-15T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2016-06-15T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:24:44","slug":"all-he-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"All He Wrote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other<\/em><\/strong><\/a> best piece of writing advice I’ve ever heard – one I’ve done my best to pass on through what’s been ten years of school visits – goes something like this:<\/p>\n

The only good reason to write is if you’ll be miserable if you stop<\/strong>. Or, as one author put it to me when I first started out, ‘Don’t do it – not unless you can’t not<\/em> do it.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

A year ago, after twenty years of doing it, I quit writing to become a musician. I’d decided at the time that the writing part of my life was over. The fact that in the months since I haven’t missed writing at all suggests I was right.<\/p>\n

I’m still a Patron of Reading <\/strong><\/a>(reading: now that’s something that really would make me miserable if I ever had to stop). My published books still exist. Velvet<\/strong><\/a> still exists, though when or if I’ll go back to it I don’t currently know. There is one more complete short story that may make an appearance somewhere sometime – and, for now, these websites still exist. But this blog ends here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My thanks to anyone who reads this message, and to all the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet through what remains, to me at least, an astonishingly lucky writing career.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in following or hearing what I do now, the places on the internet where I’m currently least inactive (;p) are Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and Soundcloud<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Best wishes to you,<\/p>\n

Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other best piece of writing advice I’ve ever heard – one I’ve done my best to pass on through what’s been ten years of school visits – goes something like this: The only good reason to write is if you’ll be miserable if you stop. Or, as one author put it to me when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-writing-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}