{"id":3404,"date":"2017-05-06T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2017-05-06T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T05:06:14","slug":"how-do-you-stop-yourself-from-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2017\/05\/06\/how-do-you-stop-yourself-from-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you Stop Yourself From Acting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a number of posts, now that I feel that I can start writing again.  It so happens that I&#8217;m feeling (I think) a little more tired than usual[1], and so it feels slightly more difficult than usual to put words to electronics.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m working on a number of posts, each of them with perhaps a paragraph or two so far.  A couple of them have really poignant titles, that really speak to me.  Titles so near and dear to my heart that I&#8217;m afraid to publish something that isn&#8217;t perfect.  So, I start another post instead of publishing something.<\/p>\n<p>It is this fear of not being good enough, a falling out of trust with my own ability that is stopping me right now.  Or rather, it isn&#8217;t, as I seem to have found a way around it.<\/p>\n<p>It involves trying things, trying different channels of thought until I find one where the words flow well enough from my fingertips.  I think it helps that I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/03\/15\/an-elemental-of-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\">that feeling before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to make a sequel to something I&#8217;ve already done[2], but interestingly, this feels even easier.  I think it may be because struggling with uploading pictures to WordPress is such a bear.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, words flowing from fingers.  Following the flow wherever it takes you.  You see the shoals of writer&#8217;s block, of tiredness, and you sit down, fully accept them, then playfully try different things until you find something that just flows around them as if the obstacles weren&#8217;t there at all.<\/p>\n<p>More on that later.  Happy creating!<\/p>\n<p>[1]Who knows what is actually happening, with the amazing ability of the brain to convince you that you don&#8217;t need to be doing things.<\/p>\n<p>[2]Anything on this blog entitled &#8216;Burning Man in Pictures&#8217;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a number of posts, now that I feel that I can start writing again. It so happens that I&#8217;m feeling (I think) a little more tired than usual[1], and so it feels slightly more difficult than usual to put words to electronics. So, I&#8217;m working on a number of posts, each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2017\/05\/06\/how-do-you-stop-yourself-from-acting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you Stop Yourself From Acting?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}