{"id":3855,"date":"2012-02-17T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2012-02-17T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:13:24","slug":"use_that_energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/use_that_energy\/","title":{"rendered":"use that energy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesb\u00f8, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/02\/crime-pays-jo-nesbo-talks-about-killing-harry-hole-and-the-best-job-in-the-world.html\">striking while the iron is hot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you write, it\u2019s important to do it while you have the enthusiasm for the idea. Maybe the most important period of your writing is when you are convinced that your idea is the best idea any writer ever has had. So you have to use that energy, because the time will come when you wake up in the morning and you will doubt your idea. And then it\u2019s good that you have already more than half\u2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I write better long form pieces if I&#8217;ve sat on them for a while to think the core ideas through, but for other projects this is completely spot on to me\u2014I need to get better at making time to sit down and execute those kinds of projects (even if it&#8217;s just in rudimentary ways) instead of just jotting my ideas down and promptly forgetting about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesb\u00f8, on striking while the iron is hot: When you write, it\u2019s important to do it while you have the enthusiasm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lliiaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}