{"id":588,"date":"2016-06-21T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:57:26","slug":"fun-with-the-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Fun with the WI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed speaking to the Bembridge branch of the WI last night. The subject of the talk was &#8216;Peta Rainford&#8217;s Books: the story so far!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Having done several school and library visits over recent months, this was my first talk to a group where the average age was (ever so slightly) over nine!<\/p>\n<p>I found the whole process a very positive one. Preparing the talk forced me to break from working on my next book and made me consider a number of very basic questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>where do I get my ideas from?<\/li>\n<li>how has my illustration style developed? and (the big one)<\/li>\n<li>what next?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suspect some of my answers were more coherent than others, but it is always good to take a step back from what you are doing and get a little perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Bembridge WI, for inviting me to talk and being an engaged and inquiring audience and good luck to those of you considering, or already engaged in, this book-writing lark for yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed speaking to the Bembridge branch of the WI last night. The subject of the talk was &#8216;Peta Rainford&#8217;s Books: the story so far!&#8217; Having done several school and library visits over recent months, this was my first talk to a group where the average age was (ever so slightly) over nine! I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}