{"id":3500,"date":"2015-08-04T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2015-08-02T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:50:33","slug":"dont-think-then-you-can-add-embellish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/dont-think-then-you-can-add-embellish\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t think . . . then you can add, embellish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think. Just write. Then you can add, embellish . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think about . . . things when I&#8217;m writing. I really try to shut off the thinking part of my brain. . . Don&#8217;t think . . . until you edit. And then you can add, embellish, and the next thing you know, if you&#8217;re very honest, all of the other stuff comes with it if it didn&#8217;t come before.&#8221; Sandra Cisneros, August 2015 The Writer magazine<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3517 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Heart.jpg\" alt=\"Heart\" width=\"180\" height=\"101\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Marlene&#8217;s Musings:<\/strong> Yes! Your first bit of writing could be a freewrite. . . where you write freely. Then you can go back and revise, edit. . . add, embellish . . . make any changes you want. But first get it all down. Write from your heart, from your gut. Just write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think. Just write. Then you can add, embellish . . . &#8220;I don&#8217;t think about . . . things when I&#8217;m writing. I really try to shut off the thinking part of my brain. . . Don&#8217;t think . . . until you edit. And then you can add, embellish, and the next thing [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,105,329,342,10],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-Us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}