{"id":6,"date":"2014-11-10T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpstg.bethzaske.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-01-07T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T01:11:45","slug":"new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"New Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Start writing, no matter about what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. You can sit and look at a page for a long time and nothing will happen. Start writing and it will. \u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

–Louis L\u2019Amour in Education of a Wandering Man<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been rather tentative about writing again. I am feeling very enthusiastic about this new venture (freelancing), even if it starts out slowly. All the same, there is anxiety. \u00a0What if no one is willing to read my work? What if I can\u2019t get a paying job? What if I can\u2019t find something to write about? What if I completely fail? What if I can\u2019t find time to write because I have a child at home? What if? What if?
\nSo the questions go. Then, as I was reading Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L\u2019Amour, I found the above quote. And something clicked. I did not start immediately. I still gave in to the fears and general anxiety. I found anything I could to not start again. Instead of writing, I cleaned off my desk (who can write at a cluttered desk?) and found music to play in the background (everyone needs working music, right?). And even yet, I kept coming back to the quote. I read it and reread it and pondered it.<\/p>\n

Finally, I talked over this new idea with Matt, who is incredibly supportive and yet not afraid to tell me when I\u2019m about to do something stupid. He was for it. And so, no other obstacles in my way, with my clean desk and music playing, I have a pencil in hand and a notebook in front of me. I\u2019m writing<\/i><\/b>. \u00a0And I\u2019m calm now that I\u2019ve begun. I know that even if this new direction isn\u2019t right for me, at least I will have tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Start writing, no matter about what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. You can sit and look at a page for a long time and nothing will happen. Start writing and it will. \u00a0 –Louis L\u2019Amour in Education of a Wandering Man I\u2019ve been rather tentative about writing again. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}