{"id":979,"date":"2012-05-18T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:35:41","slug":"to-aquafortis-and-authors-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"To Aquafortis, And Authors Everywhere: Plow On.\u2665"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SmD2o5S5ghk\/T7ZYbRHql1I\/AAAAAAAACiw\/3fREXcE_vN8\/s1600\/babyorang10.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/babyorang10.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Despair!\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Having a fixed deadline is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because even though it doesn\u2019t feel good, forcing yourself to work even if just a little, is helpful. A curse because it requires so much effort to write even a couple of paragraphs and, when written, those two paragraphs are never kindly judged by that stern, overly-critical judge that always appears during depression.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Been there, done that, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Some encouragement for you from <a href=\"http:\/\/yareview.net\/2012\/05\/depressed-not-depressing\/\" target=_blank>Francisco X. Stork<\/a>, via YARN &#8211; the Young Adult Review Network. Writing is sometimes a life marked by silent struggle &#8211; with the voices in your head, with the daily crud everyone has to deal with &#8211; but it can be done, and it can be done beautifully, as this author attests. &#8220;Depressed, Not Depression,&#8221; has some wisdom to impart. Go. Read.<\/p>\n<p>As the Scarlet Pimpernel signed all of his notes, <i>COURAGE<\/i>.\u2767<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Despair! &#8220;Having a fixed deadline is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because even though it doesn\u2019t feel good, forcing yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}