{"id":292,"date":"2017-12-20T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T11:11:20","slug":"meet-the-nethergate-writers-fiona-pretswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Nethergate Writers – Fiona Pretswell"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the fourth of our occasional series of Q&As, to help you get to know a little about the members of the Nethergate Writers.
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This time, it’s our Secretary, Fiona Pretswell.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. How long have you been a writer?<\/strong>
\nI wrote as a young teenager then not again for years. Started again about 7 years ago.<\/p>\n

2. Have you had anything published?<\/strong>
\nFour stories in the Nethergate Writers anthologies and a story in one of the Dundee Writes publications.<\/p>\n

3. Do you have a writing routine?<\/strong>
\nNo. I write whenever I can but don’t get much time to do so.<\/p>\n

4. Who is your literary hero or heroine?<\/strong>
\nCharlotte Bronte for creating one of the best woman in literature in Jane Eyre.<\/p>\n

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5. Do you prefer working in a particular genre?<\/strong>
\nI usually start as chick lit but end up with death and destruction.<\/p>\n

6. Do you have any writing ambitions?<\/strong>
\nI would love to write a crime novel.<\/p>\n

7. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?<\/strong>
\nGet a notebook and start writing down stuff that you find interesting. Overheard conversations or news stories that spark and idea.<\/p>\n

8. What are you reading at the moment?<\/strong>
\nOutlander by Diana Gabaldon and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the fourth of our occasional series of Q&As, to help you get to know a little about the members of the Nethergate Writers. This time, it’s our Secretary, Fiona Pretswell. 1. How long have you been a writer? I wrote as a young teenager then not again for years. Started again about 7… Read More »Meet the Nethergate Writers – Fiona Pretswell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}