{"id":2161,"date":"2014-09-30T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T21:23:23","slug":"breathe-focus-keep-your-head-down-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/breathe-focus-keep-your-head-down-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathe, focus, keep your head down and . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>keep going.<\/h1>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Baker Kline, interviewed by Alicia Anstead in the October 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Dory sings in <em>Finding Nemo<\/em>, &#8220;Just keep swimming. . . swimming. . . swimming. . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At some point in your writing life, you may think your writing is no-good, awful, horrible and no one would want to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Join the Ark. Most writers, I think, are in that boat at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Take the advice of <a title=\"Christina Baker Kline\" href=\"http:\/\/christinabakerkline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Baker Kline<\/a>, author of <em>Orphan Train<\/em>, &#8220;Breathe, focus, keep your head down and keep going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"The Write Spot Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> if you want prompts to jumpstart your writing. Click on &#8220;Comments&#8221; on any of the Write Spot Blog posts to read inspirational writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fish-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2167 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fish-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"fish 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>And just keep swimming, swimming. . . writing, writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>keep going. \u2014 Christina Baker Kline, interviewed by Alicia Anstead in the October 2014 issue of The Writer Magazine. Or, as Dory sings in Finding Nemo, &#8220;Just keep swimming. . . swimming. . . swimming. . . &#8221; At some point in your writing life, you may think your writing is no-good, awful, horrible and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[576,105,329,16,11],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-christina-baker-kline","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-prompt","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-yR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}