{"id":4120,"date":"2024-05-02T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2024-04-06T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T12:05:08","slug":"which-part-do-i-write-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/05\/which-part-do-i-write-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Part Do I Write Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I have to write all the parts to have a whole. But the parts that comprise the whole will probably change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am facing a big writing project (&#8220;big&#8221; of course is subjective). I have divided the whole big project into parts. Now, write each part, check off the parts in the list, and I will have the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t feel like writing the first part first. I don&#8217;t feel like writing the second, third, or even fourth part first. What do do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Write the part that I most want to write, first. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at what is left and repeat step 1.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, I suppose that will work. Correction, I know that will work. But what&#8217;s the use? I mean, I have to write all the parts to have a whole. Why not just &#8220;bear down&#8221; (or some other cliche) and write the parts in order?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple answer to this obvious but no-fun question: until I am finished with the whole, I really don&#8217;t know what parts comprise the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once I have been writing for a while, the list of parts will probably change. The part that I didn&#8217;t want to write, may be unnecessary. I didn&#8217;t have to struggle with it after all. It went into the trash can before I wrote it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lazy approach? Maybe, but who am I to call myself &#8220;lazy&#8221; when I am writing all the necessary parts that comprise a whole and I ship the whole piece to those who need it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Write the most interesting (to me) part first. The rest will fall in place. At least, that is my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I have to write all the parts to have a whole. But the parts that comprise the whole will probably change. I am facing a big writing project (&#8220;big&#8221; of course is subjective). I have divided the whole big project into parts. Now, write each part, check off the parts in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,67,5],"tags":[171,173,187,128],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-choose","category-work","category-writing","tag-adapting","tag-choose","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","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=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}