{"id":8118,"date":"2014-11-03T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2014-11-02T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:27:53","slug":"writing-in-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8118","title":{"rendered":"Writing in bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that it matters, I guess, but for some reason what came out when I started to write down a blog title was &#8220;Writing in bed.&#8221;  I have no idea why. I have no idea what I am supposed to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>That is what I often do, though. Writing in bed. <\/p>\n<p>I start blogs everywhere. Football games. Work. The car. The movies. Bars. Concerts. The gym. A lot of times I do rough drafts at lunch, and continue them at my actual desk at home. <\/p>\n<p>Finishing them seems to happen most often when I am in bed. Which is kind of bad. It&#8217;s not when I am at my most alert and intelligent. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am the one who is finished, so then there is no blog. <\/p>\n<p>Because I am in bed. <\/p>\n<p>Like now. <\/p>\n<p>I have cold medicine on board. It&#8217;s after 10pm, I have had a good (but exhausting) weekend, and I don&#8217;t like anything I have rough drafted. That means I am doing the worst sort of scribbling. And for no reason. Nothing says I can&#8217;t just skip a day. <\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of things I need to write about that are just not processed enough in my head to even start writing yet. There is a story I need to get out of my head. <\/p>\n<p>I had all day to write, but my mind was too tired. I let it watch old movies instead of reading or writing. Tear jerkers, but I didn&#8217;t even cry. Much. So when the end of the day came, I had nothing written. <\/p>\n<p>I got in bed. <\/p>\n<p>I need to sleep. <\/p>\n<p>I should sleep. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need to write.<\/p>\n<p>I start to write anyway. <\/p>\n<p>I should sleep. <\/p>\n<p>I have someone I would love to talk to. <\/p>\n<p>I should sleep. <\/p>\n<p>I keep writing. <\/p>\n<p>I do not pick up the phone. <\/p>\n<p>I am going to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I put my tablet away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that it matters, I guess, but for some reason what came out when I started to write down a blog title was &#8220;Writing in bed.&#8221; I have no idea why. I have no idea what I am supposed to say about it. That is what I often do, though. Writing in bed. I start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing in bed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","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-26W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9423,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9423","url_meta":{"origin":8118,"position":0},"title":"The fine art of being lazy","author":"Michelle","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm lazy, I wanna be lazy, I long to be out in the sun, with no work to be done. under that awning they call the sky, stretching and yawning, and let the world go drifting by..-Marilyn Monroe\/LazyThere is a fundamental disconnect between night owls and early birds. 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