{"id":48,"date":"2015-01-15T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-01-15T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T05:19:08","slug":"why-do-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/15\/why-do-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Discussed briefly with someone the other day\u00a0the difference between creating art (literature, etc) for a wage vs creating for personal reasons. It&#8217;s a point I&#8217;ve often pondered and had planned to blog about, and having it brought up again reminded me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;ve noticed that when I work on creative projects for specific people, it changes how I work. In some cases, my artistic abilities are hampered significantly. I worry instead of create. I ponder\u00a0their reactions in my mind, instead of playing\u00a0with ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If I wrote for a wage, I would likely learn discipline and it would force me to put pen to paper. However, would I compromise in an effort to churn out content? Would I\u00a0come to resent writing as a drudge? Or would I overcome all that hinders me and manage to write something worthwhile?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While I certainly could stand to learn some discipline in my writing, I feel that (for myself personally) writing is\u00a0something I do because I need to write for myself. I must write for the sake of writing and for the sake of my own sanity, not for contracts and paycheques and acclaim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The trouble is, I have to remind myself of this over and over as I write. Perfectionism and worries about peoples&#8217; opinions\u00a0continually hamstring my thought process. I have to quote Anne Lamott like a mantra in my head. Shitty first drafts. Shitty first drafts. Shitty first drafts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussed briefly with someone the other day\u00a0the difference between creating art (literature, etc) for a wage vs creating for personal reasons. It&#8217;s a point I&#8217;ve often pondered and had planned to blog about, and having it brought up again reminded me. I&#8217;ve noticed that when I work on creative projects for specific people, it changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}