{"id":1925,"date":"2012-03-23T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2012-03-23T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:16:27","slug":"im-no-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/im-no-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a Writer, But I Play One on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the pleasure of finally meeting Joe Bunting, writer and blogger extraordinaire at <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritepractice.com\/\">The Write Practice<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>We are working together on a project and he was visiting Mijas, Spain, where I live and work.  I was explaining to him how blogging for me isn&#8217;t as easy as it is for him and people like <a href=\"http:\/\/goinswriter.com\/\">Jeff Goins<\/a>.  I love to speak, I love to teach, I love to counsel&#8230; but writing, as in posting blogs, is excruciating.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have great blog ideas and sometimes I can even write well.   But consistent, quality writing is <em><strong>tough<\/strong><\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;ve got some great ideas inside me right now that need getting down on paper.  But that usually takes a night to get my initial thoughts down, a day to let it simmer, than another night of writing, then editing, then a day to procrastinate and find a nice photo&#8230; and by this time I&#8217;ve lost the fire and three subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>So forgive me.  The blog posts will still keep coming, and I there is much I still need to say&#8230; but it takes time.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Any advice for someone who is only pretending to be a writer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>How about this&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/slowly.jpg\" alt=\"It does not matter how slowly you go... so long as you do not stop\" title=\"Do Not Stop\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/slowly.jpg 500w, http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/slowly-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/slowly-105x65.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the pleasure of finally meeting Joe Bunting, writer and blogger extraordinaire at The Write Practice. We are working together on a project and he was visiting Mijas, Spain, where I live and work. I was explaining to him how blogging for me isn&#8217;t as easy as it is for him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}