{"id":37,"date":"2006-02-21T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/monday\/"},"modified":"2006-02-21T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T10:59:00","slug":"monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Headspace & Being a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shadawyn has a post on headspace (focus)<\/a> and linked to a related article by Jennifer Crusie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keeping my mind on my work is one of my biggest problems; my current solution is to go to a coffee shop on the weekends and to write at work (during lunch and by staying a bit late).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in livejournal<\/a>, Anghara writes about being a writer and making the decision to be a writer.<\/p>\n

I always feel like an imposter when reading those sorts of posts (not that that bothers me). I don’t think of myself as *being* a writer. I write, I want to sell novels, but it’s not some inherent part of my existence the way it seems to be part of other people’s. I never wanted to tell stories, or create worlds or discover people or whatever. I just had these daydreams about made-up people and I wanted to know what happened, but the stories kept morphing and I thought if I wrote them down I could get to the end. I didn’t try to write until I was in college, and I gave up in disgust several times before it occurred to me, at 25, to write really badly and revise later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shadawyn has a post on headspace (focus) and linked to a related article by Jennifer Crusie. Keeping my mind on my work is one of my biggest problems; my current solution is to go to a coffee shop on the … Continue reading →<\/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":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","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\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}