{"id":693,"date":"2008-07-08T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/compulsion-to-write\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:29:05","slug":"compulsion-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/compulsion-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"compulsion to write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compulsive. And I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I&#8217;m not joking. . . . I don&#8217;t have to do anything. Nothing. I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life, I&#8217;m useless, I&#8217;m no good. Now, it&#8217;s a fact that if I spend a day busy as a little kitten, racing around. I do this, I do that. But I haven&#8217;t written, so it&#8217;s a wasted day, and I&#8217;m no good. How do you account for that nonsense?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Doris Lessing (Bill Moyers Interview, PBS Now, January 24, 2003)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compulsive. And I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I&#8217;m not joking. . . . I don&#8217;t have to do anything. Nothing. I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life, I&#8217;m useless, I&#8217;m no good. Now,<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[95,33],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-tips","tag-doris-lessing","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}