{"id":736,"date":"2011-01-20T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=736"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:46:56","slug":"note-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/note-to-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-737\" title=\"GullDeadFish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/GullDeadFish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"164\" \/>When you keep erasing as many pages as you write each day, and you keep going in wrong directions, don\u2019t think that you\u2019re not making progress, because you are.\u00a0 It\u2019s just thinking progress, not pages progress, and when you eventually identify that you\u2019ve put your main character in a position of power and influence where her problems are global rather than personal, then add in some guards and get someone arrested, preferably her.<\/p>\n<p>You might think you would know by now the absolute basic rule of fiction: make things worse.\u00a0 But no.\u00a0 It kills you to think how many times you keep having to learn this. \u00a0What&#8217;s more: it&#8217;s not enough to make things worse in general; they have to be worse for <em>her<\/em>. \u00a0Much worse. \u00a0And now.<\/p>\n<p>At least you learned it again this morning.\u00a0 Evil laugh.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you keep erasing as many pages as you write each day, and you keep going in wrong directions, don\u2019t think that you\u2019re not making progress, because you are.\u00a0 It\u2019s just thinking progress, not pages progress, and when you eventually identify that you\u2019ve put your main character in a position of power and influence where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}