{"id":265,"date":"2008-01-30T23:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-01-30T23:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T06:16:44","slug":"storyspace-the-hanging-branching-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/01\/storyspace-the-hanging-branching-off\/","title":{"rendered":"SToRYSPACE: <em>The Hanging<\/em> &#8211; Branching Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">S<\/span>ometimes all it takes is a change of surroundings, a different environment, one that is in keeping with the mood of writing.<\/p>\n<p>A stranger in a strange place, I sat in the new-to-me campus of a very different Tunxis Community College, awaiting the beginning of another Creative Writing class.&nbsp; Upstairs&#8211;unique because there never was an upstairs here, aside from the business office and the Fisher Building where we held our writers&#8217; meetings and events&#8211;downstairs.&nbsp; &nbsp;But the Fisher Building has neither now, flattened and removed to make room for the new.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Went early to check out the parking situation&#8211;always a problem there and a bigger one now&#8211;and to return some hypertext CDs to the new library.&nbsp; Wandered around trying to find a way into the new building, caught like a wild animal in a net fencing that surrounded the courtyard with no way to get through, the library door locking behind me when I&#8217;d left it.&nbsp; Found my way in, requested a map and followed it upstairs and to what was numbered as the classroom.&nbsp; A cop sat inside; I saw him through the slit of window in the door.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t go in but sat in one of the cushioned lounge chairs that seem to be everywhere, and pulled out the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, no wi fi, no connection, though I sat just above the Cyber Cafe.&nbsp; So I struck into <em>Storyspace<\/em>, brought up <em>The Hanging<\/em>, and wrote a few blocks, a couple new threads, a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Felt damn good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">S<\/span>ometimes all it takes is a change of surroundings, a different environment, one that is in keeping with the mood of writing. A stranger in a strange place, I sat in the new-to-me campus of a very different Tunxis Community College, awaiting the beginning of another Creative Writing class.&nbsp; Upstairs&#8211;unique because there never was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}