{"id":1964,"date":"2010-10-18T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:31:55","slug":"stuck-in-a-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/10\/18\/stuck-in-a-rut\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in a Rut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Flying sparks.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/sparks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"394\" \/>When you&#8217;ve been writing for years, it&#8217;s easy to sometimes find yourself stuck in a rut.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you feel like you&#8217;re writing the same old thing; maybe you feel like work and life have taken priority over writing.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you feel like writing&#8217;s lost that spark it once had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>When you do anything long enough, there are good times and bad times.<\/p>\n<p>Read almost any writer interview, even from the most prolific writers, and you&#8217;ll see that even they had times when they weren&#8217;t as productive as we think they are.<\/p>\n<p>When I get stuck in a rut or feel like writing&#8217;s lost its spark, there are a few things I do to recapture the feelings of when I first started writing &#8212; back when every word that went down was fun and I felt like nothing could stop me!<\/p>\n<p>All this week, I&#8217;ll share what&#8217;s worked for me when I&#8217;ve needed to get out of a writing rut.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find something that works for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;ve been writing for years, it&#8217;s easy to sometimes find yourself stuck in a rut. Maybe you feel like you&#8217;re writing the same old thing; maybe you feel like work and life have taken priority over writing. Maybe you feel like writing&#8217;s lost that spark it once had. *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * When you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,23,29],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}