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As I say my blog good-bye to ballet-influenced stories are articles, I want to leave you with one last reflection on dance:<\/p>\nAs I say my blog good-bye to ballet-influenced stories are articles, I want to leave you with one last reflection on dance:<\/p>\n
Ballet is an intense pursuit.<\/p>\n
Ballet dancers are truly athletes. They:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0*<\/strong> train daily from morning until afternoon from age 12 until they retire.<\/p>\n * perform before audiences three to four times a week during their 9-10 month season.<\/p>\n * seldom have more than two weeks off at a time during the year.<\/p>\n * maintain their bodies through eating protein-filled snacks and meals.<\/p>\n * learn precise body placement movements as well as choreography.<\/p>\n Professionals dedicate their lives to their endeavors and we’re rewarded by their grace and beauty as well as their musicality. I hope you will take every opportunity possible to attend performances at all levels of expertise to support their dance efforts.<\/p>\n Why am I saying good-bye to ballet? <\/strong><\/p>\n Now I’m going back to bring you Tasman<\/em>, the 1850s story of a young lad who is falsely accused of a crime and sentenced to work for three years in the brutal penal colony half-way around the world from his home in England.<\/p>\n Stay turned for more on young Ean McClaud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I say my blog good-bye to ballet-influenced stories are articles, I want to leave you with one last reflection on dance: Ballet is an intense pursuit. Ballet dancers are truly athletes. They: \u00a0* train daily from morning until afternoon from age 12 until they retire. * perform before audiences three to four times a week during their 9-10 month season. * seldom have more than two weeks off at a time during the year. * maintain their bodies through eating protein-filled snacks and meals. * learn precise body placement movements as well as choreography. Professionals dedicate their lives to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,13,14,249,124],"tags":[126,258],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballet-trilogy","category-musings","category-new-works","category-tasman","category-writing","tag-musings","tag-new-writing-direction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1143-214x300.jpg\")
Now that my trilogy is written, I am moving on the another genre, historical fiction. Long ago when I visited Tasmania, I became obsessed with the penal colony in Port Arthur. I started writing the story but was interrupted when Marta and Lynne demanded I write more than one book about their lives.<\/p>\n