{"id":13977,"date":"2025-08-23T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:41:22","slug":"first-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"First Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hand-writing-in-journal.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8820\" style=\"width:176px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hand-writing-in-journal.png 443w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hand-writing-in-journal-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cThe first draft is just you telling yourself the story.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrypratchettbooks.com\/about-sir-terry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terry Pratchett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">#amwriting   #justwrite   #iamawriter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first draft is just you telling yourself the story.\u201d Attributed to Terry Pratchett #amwriting #justwrite #iamawriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2085],"class_list":["post-13977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-terry-pratchett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3Dr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13979,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}