{"id":7337,"date":"2016-01-03T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2016-01-03T00:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:42:23","slug":"out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Out with the Old, In with the New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7339\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace.jpg\" alt=\"Orcutt2016Workspace\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-904x508.jpg 904w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Orcutt2016Workspace-430x242.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>A New Year demands new writing projects and a new workspace. And since I&#8217;m a writer who is deeply inspired or discouraged by his environment, I need a workspace that has a lot of inspirational quotes, pictures and objects around\u00a0me when I work.<\/p>\n<p>Look closely and you can find all of my talismans and inspirational knicknacks, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cookie Monster!<\/li>\n<li>Screenshots from <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>, <em>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em>, <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, and <em>The Natural<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A painting of a summer scene by amazing artist and high school friend Kristine Zanno Kratky (based on my short story &#8220;Summer on the Cape&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>My Muse, Alexas.<\/li>\n<li>Chestnuts that I smuggled into the U.S. from France (I got them in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris).<\/li>\n<li>Shell casings from my friend Bob Hanaburgh&#8217;s Sig Sauer .45 ACP.<\/li>\n<li>A snowy cabin in the Rockies.<\/li>\n<li>Two pictures of Ernest Hemingway.<\/li>\n<li>Pictures of my two grandfathers.<\/li>\n<li>A stunning redhead who was the inspiration for Shay Connolly in my Dakota mystery, <em>A Real Piece of Work<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Cole&#8217;s painting <em>The Oxbow<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts from my next three projects.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, <em>A Moveable Feast<\/em>, and <em>The Stories of John Cheever<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A picture of Mount Everest.<\/li>\n<li>A granite stone from a quarry that my grandfather and great-grandfather cut stone in.<\/li>\n<li>My Mont Blanc pen.<\/li>\n<li>Stones from Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Appomattox, Maine, and Castlecraig (one of my ancestors&#8217; castles in Scotland).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7340 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN9915\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-904x678.jpg 904w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9915-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7341 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN9917\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-904x678.jpg 904w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9917-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7342 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN9925\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-904x678.jpg 904w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9925-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7343 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN9934\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-904x678.jpg 904w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSCN9934-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year demands new writing projects and a new workspace. And since I&#8217;m a writer who is deeply inspired or discouraged by his environment, I need a workspace that has a lot of inspirational quotes, pictures and objects around\u00a0me when I work. Look closely and you can find all of my talismans and inspirational &#8230; <a title=\"Out with the Old, In with the New\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Out with the Old, In with the New\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,11,270,13,233,15],"tags":[94,107,96,155,271,92,93,144],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-real-piece-of-work","category-personal","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","category-workspace","category-writers","category-writing-life","category-writingtools","tag-chris-orcutt","tag-inspiration","tag-novelist","tag-orcutt","tag-workspace","tag-writers-2","tag-writing","tag-writing-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7344,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}