{"id":2308,"date":"2005-11-01T08:04:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2005-11-01T08:04:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T08:04:54","slug":"day_one_writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/day_one_writers\/","title":{"rendered":"day one: writer&#8217;s block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/digicam\/0528-mopsy.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"0528-mopsy.jpg\" title=\"damn my eyes are freaky. i should seriously consider brown contact lenses.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this photo is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddencity.net\/\">kevin<\/a>.  the entire ensemble (which means props) can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hessiebell\/58289631\/\">here<\/a>.  i really should have gotten the nose with whiskers i saw at bellis fair last week.<br \/>\nso, in a fit of &#8220;i&#8217;ve got to start something, anything, dammit&#8221; i signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">nanowrimo<\/a> this year.  i had no idea what kind of novella (that &#8220;la&#8221; takes a lot of pressure off) i wanted to write, but i&#8217;ve been half-starting them for years and thought maybe having a firm deadline might actually give me some incentive to do more than half-start.  i was the queen of last minute paper-writing in school.  i&#8217;d do some reasearch the week the assignment was given then i&#8217;d do nothing until the day before it was due.  i wasn&#8217;t lazy; it was all about the adrenaline.<br \/>\ni thought that having a firm writing committment would be good for me.  that i could take lucy out to a cafe, continue my search for the best latte in town and write without the distractions of what&#8217;s on television or dishes needing doing or whatever else it is which would distract me.  i still think it&#8217;s a good idea.  i&#8217;ll flex my brain.  i&#8217;ll get out of the house.  i&#8217;ll drink more coffee.<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve decided that i&#8217;m finally going to write the story which has been percolating in my brain for almost a decade.  joe knows the title. joe knows the plot.  joe even knows the devices.  too bad i don&#8217;t know joe anymore.<br \/>\nit&#8217;s also too bad i just picked up from the library a copy of the eleventh <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312873077\/ref=nosim\/albinogiraffe-20\">wheel of time<\/a><\/i> book.  the worst part, even more than it being two years since i read the last one and only having a vague recollection of the dozens of characters in it, is that it&#8217;s 761 pages i need to read in the next two weeks.  no renewals.  there goes that jumpstart i was imagining.<br \/>\nexpect updates (read: whining) about the writing process.  i have very few expectations for the whole thing, so hopefully i won&#8217;t disappoint myself too much if i don&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this photo is for kevin. the entire ensemble (which means props) can be seen here. i really should have gotten the nose with whiskers i saw at bellis fair last week. so, in a fit of &#8220;i&#8217;ve got to start something, anything, dammit&#8221; i signed up for nanowrimo this year. i had no idea what <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/day_one_writers\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}