{"id":128,"date":"2009-08-16T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-08-16T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:52:00","slug":"some-days-its-harder-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Some days it&#8217;s harder than others . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[From Sunday]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As any of you who write surely know, there are some days when the words come freely.  When you sit down and can fill half a notebook in a sitting, or when the word count in your electronic file keeps ticking further and further upward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>This weekend has not been one of those times.  I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s tiredness&#8211;either generally or from staring at a computer most of the hours of every day&#8211;but I&#8217;m having to pluck out each and every word. Part of the problem is probably that I&#8217;ve been working on the first chunk of TWICE BITTEN, editing text I&#8217;ve already written.  The text seemed awkward, which is why I&#8217;m working on it, especially since any review I&#8217;m providing of FRIDAY NIGHT BITES has to happen in this chapter (i.e., in order to know how much review to put into later chapters, I have to get this first chapter right). It also doesn&#8217;t help that even the bit I&#8217;m editing seems unduly awkward. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Add all that together, and writing can feel more like a chore than an escape, a chance to pretend to be someone else. \u00a0When writing feels more like a mathematics of words than storytelling. But the words will (probably) come again. \u00a0Life, someone told me today, is like a sine curve. Crests. \u00a0Troughs. \u00a0Highs. \u00a0Lows. \u00a0Writing, in my experience, is pretty much the same.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>* * *\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>On a completely unrelated noted, are you looking for a nice To-Do list? You can enter your own title to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarsquick.com\/printables\/download.html?action=toDoList\">tidily organized PDF<\/a>, and then download it for easy printing. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From Sunday] As any of you who write surely know, there are some days when the words come freely. When you sit down and can fill half a notebook in a sitting, or when the word count in your electronic file keeps ticking further and further upward.\u00a0 This weekend has not been one of those<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=128\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[362,361],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-twice-bitten","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}