{"id":67508,"date":"2018-07-27T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67508"},"modified":"2018-07-27T07:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:39:03","slug":"swirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67508","title":{"rendered":"Swirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog 16.5 years ago &#8211; and one of the things I learned early on was that the key to making it work, day in, day out, through writers block and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=trulbert&amp;sprefix=45+de%2Caps%2C167&amp;crid=1AVI7XMDYPQH6\">manic creative bursts<\/a>, was to write to a schedule; whether it was a couple times a day or twice a week, just\u00a0<em>write,\u00a0<\/em>even &#8211; maybe especailly &#8211; if it was krep.<\/p>\n<p>This past few months my cycle has been more &#8220;block&#8221; than &#8220;maniacially creative&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a busy, exhausting couple of months for a variety of personal reasons &#8211; most of them very good, but pretty taxing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been though the cycle often enough to know it&#8217;ll pass; I doubt I&#8217;ll ever feel the creative doldrums like i did in 2011, after throwing myself neck-deep into writing about the 2010 gubernatorial race and coming out completely exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what they say &#8211; the first step is admitting you&#8217;re overstretched and exhausted!<\/p>\n<p>Much more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog 16.5 years ago &#8211; and one of the things I learned early on was that the key to making it work, day in, day out, through writers block and manic creative bursts, was to write to a schedule; whether it was a couple times a day or twice a week, just\u00a0write,\u00a0even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67509,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508\/revisions\/67509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}