{"id":332,"date":"2019-03-28T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:43:50","slug":"handwritten-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Handwritten lines&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you still love seeing things hand written? I do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love receiving love notes stuck to the fridge, I pounce on snail mail and I often find myself pouring over stacks of old journals stuffed full of notes from mentorships, conferences, morning pages and old poems and writing notes&#8230; And I have a pile of fresh notebooks just waiting to be filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when this little beauty arrived from Jane Washington (one of my favorite authors-to-stalk) in the mail, I knew I had to find a special project for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-300x374.jpg 300w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook-850x1059.jpg 850w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_Notebook.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janewashington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Jane Washington (opens in a new tab)\">Jane Washington<\/a> sent me this beauty as part of a gorgeous thank you pack for being a beta reader for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"I AM GREY (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/I-Am-Grey-Jane-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B07DFHQGRT\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PL2B9T1W6P7G&amp;keywords=i+am+grey+by+jane+washington&amp;qid=1553808895&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=I+am+grey+jane%2Caps%2C209&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">I AM GREY<\/a>. Have you read it yet? Seriously, you should. Stat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an indie author or any freelance soul, it&#8217;s easy to lose sight of the woods for the trees. You can get lost in the endless list of to do&#8217;s for the business side of things and the continual press to *write more words* (or create more stuff). If you&#8217;re not careful, I&#8217;ve noticed, you can completely forget to take a moment to notice the little beautiful miracles along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash-850x1063.jpg 850w, https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPBB_HandwrittenLines_finesilveash.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, inspired by a friend on IG, I&#8217;ve started a new series of hand-written love notes to myself&#8230; (they sort of double as mini book teasers) journaling my favorite lines from my WIP as a way to celebrate dancing with the muse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you do to celebrate your writing \/ moments of creativity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you still love seeing things hand written? 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I love receiving love notes stuck to the fridge, I pounce on snail mail and I often find myself pouring over stacks of old journals stuffed full of notes from mentorships, conferences, morning pages and old poems and writing notes&#8230; And I have a pile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2,16,22],"tags":[91,17,113,112,115,98,8,18,114],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-teasers","category-love-notes","category-on-writing","category-wip","tag-am-writing","tag-book-teaser","tag-favorite-lines","tag-handwritten","tag-journal","tag-love-notes","tag-pyro-pyro-burning-bright","tag-wip","tag-writing-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksbymiristone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}