{"id":6954,"date":"2017-10-10T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:24:48","slug":"i-dont-know-what-im-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/i-dont-know-what-im-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Julianna-Baggott.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6955 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Julianna-Baggott.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Julianna-Baggott.png 312w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Julianna-Baggott-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cEventually, I stop looking back and being prissy about the beginning, but I\u2019m pretty prissy about it for a long while. At a certain point, I only go forward. I allow myself to write a chunk where I can say, \u2018You know, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m really doing here. It\u2019s a bit messy.\u2019 I cut myself some slack. I can also write with blind spots where I say, \u2018I know I\u2019m going to have to figure this out later I don\u2019t know what the answer is right now but that\u2019s OK,\u2019 and I can keep writing.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/juliannabaggott.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julianna Baggott<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from &#8220;Pure Writer,&#8221; by Elfrieda Abbe, The Writer Magazine, January 2016<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong> When you get to a &#8220;stuck&#8221; place in your writing, type &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">xyz<\/span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">something here<\/span>&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">in red<\/span> at your sticky spot.You can come back to that unsettled place later and fix it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Take a break. Get up, walk around, have a sip of water, look out a window. Then get back to your writing.\u00a0 Just Write!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEventually, I stop looking back and being prissy about the beginning, but I\u2019m pretty prissy about it for a long while. At a certain point, I only go forward. I allow myself to write a chunk where I can say, \u2018You know, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m really doing here. It\u2019s a bit messy.\u2019 I [&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":[1111],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-julianna-baggott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1Oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}