{"id":448,"date":"2005-05-10T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=448"},"modified":"2005-05-10T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T13:26:48","slug":"indecision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/05\/10\/indecision\/","title":{"rendered":"Indecision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know why I have such trouble starting stories.<br \/>\nThe answer came to me while reading someone else&#8217;s blog:  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chadfowler.com\/index.cgi\">Chad Fowler<\/a>.  He was talking about the book he&#8217;s working on and his observations of other people who want to write books.  His observation, which I thought was dead on accurate, was that most people wanted to have written a book, not to go through the process of writing a book.  I think many people dream of being a writer, but few dream of the work involved in writing.  There are times that I can sympathize with that.<br \/>\nBut, my problem tends to be indecision.  I have a hard time picking which story is worth writing.  Or, which story is most worth writing.  So, I fret over which one to start until it just doesn&#8217;t interest me any more, or until I come up with enough pre-writing requirements, so that I never actually get to the writing part.  Hmm, that therapy stuff must be making me more insightfull or something.  Damn.  One less excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know why I have such trouble starting stories. The answer came to me while reading someone else&#8217;s blog: Chad Fowler. He was talking about the book he&#8217;s working on and his observations of other people who want to write books. His observation, which I thought was dead on accurate, was that most people wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,20,19,16,34,33],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-crass-commerce","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-technique","category-writing","tag-chad-fowler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}