{"id":18514,"date":"2020-09-22T21:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T01:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18514"},"modified":"2020-09-29T00:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:18:17","slug":"day-193-thoughts-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18514","title":{"rendered":"Day 193: Thoughts on Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Words &#8220;sound&#8221; different on a computer screen than they do on paper. Sometimes I write a sentence on the computer, read and reread it, and think it&#8217;s great every time. When I print it out, though, I often find that I hate the way it reads on paper. Mistakes are also easier to find on paper. Weird, but that&#8217;s the way it is.<\/li><li>The more I write, the more I want to write, but there is a limit to how much writing I can or should do in one day. Today I wrote a bunch of diatribes (good, but useless) on Facebook, then wrote a bunch of diatribes at work (useful ones, of course), and now I&#8217;m writing this post for my blog. That&#8217;s too much writing for one day. Writing revs up my brain. Too much writing causes my mind to race uncontrollably. I&#8217;ll be lucky to get any sleep tonight. And the writing I did on Facebook was not appreciated, so it was mostly wasted energy (I say &#8220;mostly&#8221; because of a strange moral dilemma I&#8217;m experiencing, which I&#8217;ve discussed in another post).<\/li><li>I can write all day, trying to write clearly, logically, persuasively, sometimes even cleverly, and succeeding (as far as I&#8217;m told) in most of those goals, but it&#8217;s always the careless throwaway lines that people really like. If I&#8217;ve given it zero thought, people love it. I hope this is because the other writing primes my mind for generating zingers, and not because the other writing sucks.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words &#8220;sound&#8221; different on a computer screen than they do on paper. Sometimes I write a sentence on the computer, read and reread it, and think it&#8217;s great every time. When I print it out, though, I often find that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18514\">Continue reading <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":[607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18517,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}