{"id":773,"date":"2020-11-11T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:17:12","slug":"updates-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/updates-3\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATES!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hello.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-774\" width=\"374\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hello.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hello-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 85vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Phew, sorry about being MIA. Life has been crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you&#8217;re sick of hearing about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week I plan to be pretty busy with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/philadelphiawritingworkshop.com\/2019\/12\/05\/the-2020-philadelphia-writing-workshop-november-14-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 2020 Philadelphia Writing Workshop: November 14-15,\u00a02020<\/a> which is  all virtual this year, which is great news for an introvert like me.<br><br>Lots of exciting developments, lots of pitching and learning and geeking-out over writing stuff, but for 2 whole days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working at DIY MFA has also been a fun, meaningful, and rewarding experience with some new developments on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pretty solid this month with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nanowrimo<\/a> too that I am doing alongside <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wicon-2020.heysummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writer Igniter Con 2020<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah lots of new stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And oh right, at some point I should be giving a virtual talk on Writing Across Genres which I plan on sharing with my audience too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And speaking of my audience. I am doing a call for submissions! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This is the big surprise for those in the Facebook group and Newsletter list, that they can start contributing to the blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>At the moment, we don&#8217;t have any strict guidelines for posting, as I trust my audience to be creative writers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as we grow the guidelines might get stricter. <br>It&#8217;s all a work in progress, but I am excited about this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will also be posting soon an article that was already submitted so stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you wish to submit, just email me at amymarieayres@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only guidelines at the moment are to try and fit into the three C&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">C-Creativity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">C-Craft<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">C-Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of wiggle room in those first two categories, which include your creative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, email me with any questions and I look forward to your submissions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew, sorry about being MIA. 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Lots of exciting developments, lots of pitching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/updates-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UPDATES!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}