{"id":8082,"date":"2014-11-08T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2014-11-07T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T07:24:27","slug":"writing-that-gets-away-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"Writing that gets away from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I am writing, I know pretty much what I want to say and it just flows out. I edit a bit, but it&#8217;s like taking dictation. <\/p>\n<p>Other times, it&#8217;s just stuck. I have an idea, but nothing I do can make it work. I&#8217;ll abandon and return..but sometimes it is just dead. <\/p>\n<p>Then there are the times when I have no ideas at all. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite times are when I start out thinking that I know just what I am going to write but things take off in a direction I wasn&#8217;t expecting at all. Maybe &#8220;favorite&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite the right word. The most revealing times are when that happens. The times when I get to the end and think OH.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t what is going to happen right now. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing is what seems to be happening. <\/p>\n<p>I have ideas. A lot of them. I just don&#8217;t want to write any of them. It&#8217;s not that I am struggling to write them, I just don&#8217;t want to even start. <\/p>\n<p>Inspiration? Lacking.<br \/>\nMotivation? Well. I&#8217;ve been staring at this screen for a while. I even locked myself in my room so I would stop being distracted by old movies. It didn&#8217;t work. I still don&#8217;t feel like writing a thing. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m laughing at myself because nothing says I have to write anything. I&#8217;m not in deadline. I don&#8217;t have a boss expecting a certain quantity of words. This isn&#8217;t my job. I can not write whenever I want to, but when I tried I got all twitchy. <\/p>\n<p>So I wrote. Anything. Shrug. Nothing.<br \/>\nSome words.<br \/>\nString together. <\/p>\n<p>I think it must be time to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I am writing, I know pretty much what I want to say and it just flows out. I edit a bit, but it&#8217;s like taking dictation. Other times, it&#8217;s just stuck. I have an idea, but nothing I do can make it work. I&#8217;ll abandon and return..but sometimes it is just dead. Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing that gets away from me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-26m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8118,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8118","url_meta":{"origin":8082,"position":0},"title":"Writing in bed","author":"Michelle","date":"November 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that it matters, I guess, but for some reason what came out when I started to write down a blog title was \"Writing in bed.\" I have no idea why. 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