{"id":3743,"date":"2022-10-10T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:58:42","slug":"the-take-a-week-writing-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/10\/the-take-a-week-writing-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Take a Week&#8221; Writing Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes, if you wait a week before writing something, you can write it well and quickly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a writing technique that works for me. Try it; it may work for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think about something for a week. No great concentration, but thinking now and then, off and on, having conversations with myself in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I sit at the keyboard, and bang it out in an hour. Finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This works if I have a week. What if I don&#8217;t? I make a week. Sometimes I delay the due date. Sometimes I compress the things I do over a week (think now and then, talk to myself) into a day or an hour. That isn&#8217;t easy, but it works for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about time. There is something about &#8220;mulling it over.&#8221; There is something about waiting until a writer is ready before writing. Wait for the right time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, if you wait a week before writing something, you can write it well and quickly. Here is a writing technique that works for me. Try it; it may work for you. I think about something for a week. No great concentration, but thinking now and then, off and on, having conversations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,42,5],"tags":[154,164,128],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-process","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-process","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}