{"id":5514,"date":"2018-12-17T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:49:35","slug":"how-does-one-overcome-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/17\/how-does-one-overcome-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"How does one overcome writer&#8217;s block?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5496\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5496\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"How does one overcome writer's block?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-17.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How does one overcome writer&#8217;s block?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Writer&#8217;s block is usually a result of your internal editor being adjusted louder than your internal creator. When your internal editor says &#8220;not good enough&#8221; too often or too loudly, preventing you from getting the words in your head onto the page, tell your internal editor, &#8220;It&#8217;s a good start. I can change it later if I need to.&#8221; Just keep repeating that until it&#8217;s louder and more persistent than your internal editor. I also recommend reading Anne Lamott&#8217;s <em>Bird by Bird<\/em> (O&#8217;Neill Library PN147 .L315 1994).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer&#8217;s block is usually a result of your internal editor being adjusted louder than your internal creator. When your internal editor says &#8220;not good enough&#8221; too often or too loudly, preventing you from getting the words in your head onto the page, tell your internal editor, &#8220;It&#8217;s a good start. I can change it later &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/17\/how-does-one-overcome-writers-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does one overcome writer&#8217;s block?&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","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=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5563,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}