I swear I see this at least once a week on some writer\u2019s blog or another.\u00a0 I am unsympathetic, but perhaps it\u2019s because if I don\u2019t have time to write, I don\u2019t spend X number of minutes writing a blog post about how I don\u2019t have time to write.<\/p>\n
Color me curmudgeonly, but a writer writes, even if it\u2019s only in his head, plotting, working through a problem, playing what-if, taking notes into one of those micro-recorder key chain thingies, having a scrap piece of paper and a pencil, churning your issues over with a friend or talking to yourself.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n
Writing isn\u2019t always about sitting in front of a blank computer screen and staring at it.\u00a0 It\u2019s about fostering the world you\u2019re building and the characters you\u2019re creating. Do you really do that in front of a computer screen, pounding out each word like it\u2019s a chore?<\/p>\n
I want to know something:\u00a0 How much of your story\u00a0 could you have written if you hadn\u2019t spent that time on your blog complaining about not having any time to write? Or is writing a chore<\/em> for you who can\u2019t find time to write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I swear I see this at least once a week on some writer\u2019s blog or another.\u00a0 I am unsympathetic, but perhaps it\u2019s because if I don\u2019t have time to write, I don\u2019t spend X number of minutes writing a blog post about how I don\u2019t have time to write. Color me curmudgeonly, but a writer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16958,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}