{"id":4495,"date":"2013-11-13T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T07:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2013-11-13T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T07:59:25","slug":"what-is-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4495","title":{"rendered":"What is writer&#8217;s block?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, under the age of 10, I claim that I was hit with writer&#8217;s block.  With it, my ideas for stories disappeared.  I could not imagine the crazy villains.  I could not imagine heroines\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy sister and me always.  I could not imagine the plots, the other characters, or the settings.  All of it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to be in yearbook and the school newspaper.  Rejected.  I started my own creative writing club, but I only had one class, because I didn&#8217;t know what to do.  I did many things to overcome the writer&#8217;s block.  But all I could do was write sparingly in my diary about what was going going in my life\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat I hated, what I loved, what annoyed me.<\/p>\n<p>Then when I was 18, I started writing again.  Moreover in the form of blogging.  It was read.  I was validated!  But I still wrote more personal essay shorts.  More memoir type things.  It was always about me.  Then I participated in Nanowrimo.  But I just used it to write a memoir.  So I didn&#8217;t really reach my goal, but I wrote my entire life up until the age of 21.  It was full of boys.  I wrote in a xanga that my friend had spammed across the comments.  I wrote long stories and garnered a legion of fans.  They loved me for my insights.  But then I hated it.<\/p>\n<p>Then when I was 29, I decided this was the time.  Someone gave me a prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, under the age of 10, I claim that I was hit with writer&#8217;s block. With it, my ideas for stories disappeared. I could not imagine the crazy villains. I could not imagine heroines\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy sister and me always. I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}