{"id":4040,"date":"2025-06-02T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2025-05-24T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:55:15","slug":"if-there-were-but-words-enough-and-time-or-maybe-a-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2025\/06\/02\/if-there-were-but-words-enough-and-time-or-maybe-a-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"If there were but words enough and time… or maybe a photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a short note to let you know that, when you read this, I will have emerged from my second science fiction convention in a fortnight. I will have seen some of my favourite people and will be too tired to write anything.<\/p>\n

I wanted to apologise for no blog post. Instead of that, let me give you a picture. A picture, after all, is worth a thousand words. Actually, it’s worth more than 1000 words. I used this picture (and the memory of getting through that flood) in a story I set in Belanglo Forest. I stayed in the log cabin (and have a picture of the log cabin if you want to see it) and drank at the pub and, very fortunately, didn’t see any dead bodies. If you’re curious about the story (which probably classifies as sarcastic horror), you can find more about it here: This Fresh Hell \u2013 Australasian Horror Writers Association<\/a><\/p>\n

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1980s, Belanglo, at the time of the backpack murders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a short note to let you know that, when you read this, I will have emerged from my second science fiction convention in a fortnight. I will have seen some of my favourite people and will be too tired to write anything. I wanted to apologise for no blog post. Instead of that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[626,335,8,6,56],"tags":[112,1060,639],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books-2","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-life-experiences","tag-australia","tag-belanglo-forest","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}