{"id":4553,"date":"2012-08-20T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2012-08-20T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:27:00","slug":"avoiding-the-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/08\/20\/avoiding-the-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"An avalanche.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/avalanche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"389\" \/>Recently, I&#8217;ve heard more than a few people (including writing friends), talk about how the beginning political season is already getting to them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard others talk about how <a title=\"Why Take a Social Media Break?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/08\/15\/why-take-a-social-media-break\/\">keeping up with all their social media sites<\/a> feels like an avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Others just feel overwhelmed, <a title=\"A Question of Time.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/08\/17\/a-question-of-time\/\">like there&#8217;s no time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a writer and outside forces seem to be bogging you down, there&#8217;s an easy way to fix that. Just turn things off&#8230;and <strong>write!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you take care of the things you <em>must <\/em>take care of (you <em>have <\/em>to pay your bills, but you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have to argue politics on Facebook) and let all the other things fall to the side as you write, you&#8217;ll see the avalanche was really just in your mind. Or, at the very least, you&#8217;ll lose yourself in an avalanche of pages instead of an avalanche of stress.<\/p>\n<p>What you choose to be buried by is up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve heard more than a few people (including writing friends), talk about how the beginning political season is already getting to them. I&#8217;ve heard others talk about how keeping up with all their social media sites feels like an avalanche. Others just feel overwhelmed, like there&#8217;s no time. If you&#8217;re a writer and outside [&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":[24,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553"}],"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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}