{"id":2145,"date":"2022-09-19T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:29:24","slug":"blogging-restart-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/blogging-restart-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging restart, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking I want to put more writing here, and then never quite actually doing it.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"obstacles-and-slowdowns\"><\/a>Obstacles and slowdowns<\/h2>\n<p>Some factors or typical patterns:<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>I write something elsewhere. It&nbsp;<em>would<\/em> be interesting to post a version of it here &#8211; but in order for it to make sense here, I&#8217;d need to add a bit of context, and I never get around to doing that.<\/li>\n<li>I start writing something which I intend for here, and as I think through the different aspects of the topic, the article gets really long! which obviously takes more effort to finally finish and put up than if I stuck to short little thoughts.<\/li>\n<li>Also I noticed recently that the repeated changes to WordPress had begun to feel like a deterrent.This factor is of course amplified by the slow cycle of my posts here. I&nbsp;don&#8217;t blog for a while, and then I come back, and the editor doesn&#8217;t work the same, and&nbsp;I have to figure stuff out all over again. Treacle.\n<p>(I&#8217;m not even interested in these newfangled &#8220;blocks&#8221; &#8211; I&nbsp;just want ONE place where I can paste in my HTML, thanks very much!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><a name=\"unsticking\"><\/a>Unsticking<\/h2>\n<p>I think what might help to disrupt those patterns and get going again is to intentionally try and write more stuff that&#8217;s shorter and more &#8220;of the moment&#8221;. So that&#8217;s what this is.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if it works :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on re-starting writing on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-meta","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}