{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-13T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/prolific\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T01:54:00","slug":"prolific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/prolific\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On LJ, Shadawyn wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/shadawyn.livejournal.com\/388052.html\">an essay on the danger of being prolific<\/a>. She says that when a person who had been easily writing 2,000+ words a day suddenly can&#8217;t write that many, it&#8217;s hard to accept that writing only 500 a day might be ok, even while cheering on other people who are writing more slowly than oneself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s only a problem for prolific writers. (I&#8217;ve never been that fast, though, so maybe it is.) Even those of us with smaller goals can suddenly find ourselves unable to meet them. Right now I&#8217;m struggling to accept that my current goal &#8212; do something, anything every day &#8212; is worth bothering with, when 10+ hours a week used to be normal.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t do 10 hours a week right now, because those 10 hours don&#8217;t exist.<br \/>\nI guess my point is that all of us need to set reasonable goals and remember that things change. And if we suddenly can&#8217;t write 750 words a day anymore, to do what we can and stop fretting, which is easier said than done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On LJ, Shadawyn wrote an essay on the danger of being prolific. She says that when a person who had been easily writing 2,000+ words a day suddenly can&#8217;t write that many, it&#8217;s hard to accept that writing only 500 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/prolific\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}