{"id":5818,"date":"2020-06-26T18:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2020-06-26T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:41:57","slug":"writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2020\/06\/26\/writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past block has reminded me that whatever form of writing I am working with, involving some kind of personal experience in my writing made the writing process considerably easier. I don\u2019t know if the writing was better, but writing personal narratives always took less time to write and felt like less work to write. I know this is probably a good thing, but I can\u2019t help but feel worried about what I would do when I have to write something that I cannot involve personal things in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at this semester, the hardest thing to write was my research proposal for cultural psychology. It took me days to write and every time I worked on it, I found myself spending hours just trying to get motivation to write. Going forward, I want to find a way to enjoy writing without involving personal experiences. I have a long journey ahead of me in the realm of higher education&#8230;which inevitably means a lot more papers to write\u2014most of which I probably can\u2019t include personal experiences in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m worried for the future. I mean maybe I haven\u2019t found my \u201cscientific\u201d muse yet. But damn I wish I had.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past block has reminded me that whatever form of writing I am working with, involving some kind of personal experience in my writing made the writing process considerably easier. I don\u2019t know if the writing was better, but writing personal narratives always took less time to write and felt like less work to write. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2020\/06\/26\/writers-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Block&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-a","category-py178","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-1vQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5819,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}