{"id":87254,"date":"2016-04-08T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=87254&#038;preview_id=87254"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:04:00","slug":"take-5-with-gemma-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/take-5-with-gemma-fraser\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKE 5 with Gemma Fraser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick 5 minute interview with top mummy blogger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/writeonmumblog.wordpress.com\/\">Gemma Fraser<\/a>\u00a0who speaks to us about why it&#8217;s important for her to write in her own voice and where she draws her inspiration from.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: solid 2px #FFA500; background-color: #ffd085; padding: 10px; margin: 10px;\">\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to start blogging on top of your freelance work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I spend my working life writing in a news or features style, depending on the publication I&#8217;m writing for. Blogging gives me the opportunity to write in my own &#8220;voice&#8221; and I find it a therapeutic outlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Why motherhood?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Being a mum is what I do more &#8211; and hopefully better &#8211; than anything else, so writing about it seemed quite natural to me. From years of posting about my daughter&#8217;s exploits on Facebook, I came to realise that people quite like reading about the reality of motherhood and about the funny stories that come hand in hand with having a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Who or what inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wouldn&#8217;t say I was inspired by anyone in particular. I get inspired by music or by taking a walk along the beach and just listening to the waves. I&#8217;m also particularly inspired after a glass of sauvignon blanc or two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What is your pitch to PRs? How would you prefer to be contacted by them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s pretty simple really: a realistic, honest and personal take on life bringing up a child on your own while trying to sell stories in order to keep her in overpriced blueberries and avocados.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Where would you like to see your\u00a0blog\u00a0in one year\u00a0from now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would just like to see people continue to read it and enjoy it. There have been a few occasions recently where I&#8217;ve met readers who have been able to empathise with certain scenarios, or who have just thought something was really funny, and that&#8217;s really what I set out to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow Gemma on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GemmaFraser10\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">GemmaFraser10<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Share your comments below or Tweet us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vuelio\">@Vuelio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick 5 minute interview with top mummy blogger Gemma Fraser who speaks to us about why it&#8217;s important for her to write in her own voice and where she draws her inspiration from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":87255,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6980,1449],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}