{"id":1533,"date":"2013-11-08T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:29:28","slug":"slower-traffic-keep-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/slower-traffic-keep-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Slower Traffic Keep Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41\" alt=\"r-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Everybody gets blocked once in a while. Maybe it&#8217;s due to burnout, maybe a plot tangle has you stumped, or maybe it&#8217;s just one of those days when the muse has fallen silent. It never feels good, whatever the cause.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be great to be able to say there&#8217;s a sure-fire way to get past a blockage, but different things work for different people. Maybe working on another project for a while, or maybe just taking a stroll for some fresh air. You&#8217;ll need to try stuff and see what works.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, Kent has been struggling to find his game face. The words are there, but they won&#8217;t do as he commands. (No one who&#8217;s met him believes a word of this, yet it&#8217;s true.) Meanwhile, Jen is on a roll. By working together, we greatly reduce the chances of the project getting stalled out completely. Oh, that happens. It happens a fair bit, actually. But either of us on our own would get stuck much more often.<\/p>\n<p>With a partner who&#8217;s in a good place productivity-wise, you can be less stressed out over an occasional off day. It can also mean that while you&#8217;re stewing in frustration over your inability to write anything, you&#8217;ll have a partner in the room with you making it all look so easy. But don&#8217;t take it personally. Be glad someone&#8217;s got your back, and give yourself the time you need to get limbered up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody gets blocked once in a while. Maybe it&#8217;s due to burnout, maybe a plot tangle has you stumped, or maybe it&#8217;s just one of those days when the muse has fallen silent. It never feels good, whatever the cause. It&#8217;d be great to be able to say there&#8217;s a sure-fire way to get past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,326],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-writers-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}