{"id":10460,"date":"2006-09-08T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/08\/fighting-writers-block\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T08:00:39","slug":"fighting-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/08\/fighting-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting writer’s block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a few tips<\/a> on how to fight the writer’s block (again). Looks like this is first part in the series.<\/p>\n

Writing is easy, it’s quality that’s hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dufus big much Scott is\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). It might be grammarless, broken, or inaccurate but it is writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, while you’re at it, note how good the writing is.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here are a few tips on how to fight the writer’s block (again). Looks like this is first part in the series. Writing is easy, it’s quality that’s hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dufus big much Scott is\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). It might be grammarless, broken, or inaccurate but it is … Continue reading Fighting writer’s block<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9658,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/11\/my-head-is-slow-these-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":10460,"position":0},"title":"My head is slow these days","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Some people call it writer's block. 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