{"id":3110,"date":"2020-04-09T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:21:51","slug":"writing-in-tough-times-lets-stop-kidding-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/04\/writing-in-tough-times-lets-stop-kidding-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in Tough Times (Let&#8217;s Stop Kidding Ourselves)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Writing is tough on any day. Things now are tough for some of us in some ways on some days. Writing is still tough and still possible. Let&#8217;s stop kidding ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have read a dozen blog posts about &#8220;writing in tough times.&#8221; These are tough times, right? Well, in some ways on some days these are tough times for some writers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have not heard about massive electrical outages anywhere. I have not heard about massive Internet outages anywhere. I have not heard that chairs have been taken from homes to be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sit in the chair, put your hands on the keyboard and write. One keystroke, one word, one line, one page. WRITE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one is stopping anyone from writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if the power goes out? Grab a pencil and a pile of paper and WRITE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one is topping anyone from writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">W R I T E<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, but, but&#8230;no buts. W R I T E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is tough now? It is always tough. We write because we write. We know it is tough. We write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kids worn you to a frazzle? Write about that. Job lost? Write about that. Afraid to go anywhere? Write about that. Afraid to write anything? Write about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Writing is tough on any day. Things now are tough for some of us in some ways on some days. Writing is still tough and still possible. Let&#8217;s stop kidding ourselves. I have read a dozen blog posts about &#8220;writing in tough times.&#8221; These are tough times, right? Well, in some ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,5],"tags":[190,128],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excuses","category-writing","tag-excuses","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}