{"id":18950,"date":"2022-05-02T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18950"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T20:49:25","slug":"i-am-stuck-i-cant-write-anything-i-dont-know-what-will-my-paper-become-it-is-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/02\/i-am-stuck-i-cant-write-anything-i-dont-know-what-will-my-paper-become-it-is-painful\/","title":{"rendered":"I am stuck I can&#8217;t write anything I don&#8217;t know what will my paper become it is painful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050222-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050222-22.jpg\" alt=\"I am stuck I can't write anything I don't know what will my paper become it is painful\" class=\"wp-image-18884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050222-22.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050222-22-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>I am stuck I can&#8217;t write anything I don&#8217;t know what will my paper become it is painful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re having this painful experience. It means your standards for the final product are high. But it also means those standards are blocking your ability to begin. Sometimes, the first draft is just a step on the path to the final draft. I recommend the short essay &#8220;Shitty First Drafts&#8221; by Anne Lamott, in her book Bird by Bird: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/lamott-first.\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/lamott-first.<\/a> Bird by Bird at BC Libraries: Social Work Library, PN147 .L315 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re having this painful experience. It means your standards for the final product are high. But it also means those standards are blocking your ability to begin. Sometimes, the first draft is just a step on the path to the final draft. I recommend the short essay &#8220;Shitty First Drafts&#8221; by Anne Lamott, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/02\/i-am-stuck-i-cant-write-anything-i-dont-know-what-will-my-paper-become-it-is-painful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am stuck I can&#8217;t write anything I don&#8217;t know what will my paper become it is painful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18954,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions\/18954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}