{"id":288,"date":"2008-08-04T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T02:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T02:30:10","slug":"to-the-center-of-the-city-where-all-roads-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/to-the-center-of-the-city-where-all-roads-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"to the center of the city where all roads meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When do you write? Yes, I&#8217;m asking you.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you = <a href=\"http:\/\/annes3.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne<\/a> then you have three where I only have one so surely if you can find time to write then I should be able to, too!)<\/p>\n<p>No, really, when do you write? I would like to write more. Not even necessarily blag or scholarship or journal but anything, just anything. That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Lynda-Barry\/dp\/1897299354\/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1214964641&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">new Lynda Barry book<\/a> has plenty of prompts, just in case I get stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Right now my weekdays are like this: get up, get ready for work, eat breakfast (and make sure Gus does, too), leave for work around the same time that Jonathan takes Gus to camp, work, come home, eat dinner, hang out with Gus a bit, either do the dishes or get Gus ready for bed (we switch off), make my lunch, download my email&#8230;and then it&#8217;s 9pm, if not later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty tired by then, and it&#8217;s hard to write. If I have a deadline I can do it (tea at dinner helps). But even my journal lately, when I write in the evenings, has been all &#8220;blah blah blah, I&#8217;m so tired, there&#8217;s never any time, blah blah blah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People say to get up early and write. It sounds torturous to get up any earlier than 6:45, but maybe I will give it a try. Of course I&#8217;d have to go to bed earlier too. Maybe I should be writing at lunchtime. Seems like it could be kind of pleasant to go sit on the plaza and write for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do you write? Yes, I&#8217;m asking you. (And if you = Anne then you have three where I only have one so surely if you can find time to write then I should be able to, too!) No, really, when do you write? I would like to write more. Not even necessarily blag or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}