{"id":11234,"date":"2021-12-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2021-12-06T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:01:04","slug":"get-past-ego-to-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/get-past-ego-to-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Get past ego to connect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Helping-hands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10625\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think American society alienates us from ourselves, and we have a great need to reconnect. Human beings yearn to connect and to tell our stories before we die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we want to write, but when we get down to it, there\u2019s resistance, because the ego gets scared.\u201d \u2014 Natalie Goldberg in an interview with Genie Zeiger, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/335\/keep-the-hand-moving\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/335\/keep-the-hand-moving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cKeep The Hand Moving<\/a>,\u201d The Sun November 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ideas on how to get past ego and Just Write<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-inner-critic-tar-pit-of-doom-and-despair\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-inner-critic-tar-pit-of-doom-and-despair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Inner Critic Tar Pit of Doom and Despair<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/is-go-big-or-go-home-right-for-you\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/is-go-big-or-go-home-right-for-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is \u201cGo Big or Go Home\u201d Right for You?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/9084\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/9084\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Macy Stafford: Live Love Now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#amwriting #creativewriting #justwrite #freewrites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think American society alienates us from ourselves, and we have a great need to reconnect. Human beings yearn to connect and to tell our stories before we die. Sometimes we want to write, but when we get down to it, there\u2019s resistance, because the ego gets scared.\u201d \u2014 Natalie Goldberg in an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[90,1165,8,1352],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-creative-writing","tag-just-write-writing-freely-the-write-spot-blog","tag-natalie-goldberg","tag-rachel-macy-stafford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}