{"id":2068,"date":"2012-06-17T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2012-06-17T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:44:54","slug":"yeah-its-been-a-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2068","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, it&#8217;s been a drought."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hit a wall a while back and couldn&#8217;t concentrate on anything.\u00a0 It&#8217;s largely due to the steady increase in summer volume at work, making for longer hours, culminating in last week that was a horror show.<\/p>\n<p>The hours aren&#8217;t likely to calm down much for a while, but I think I&#8217;m at least adjusted to it.\u00a0 After a long drought of not even wanting to open a document, I cracked open Beauty of the Wood today, cleaned up a few things I&#8217;d thought about during the hiatus ( even when I&#8217;m not writing, I&#8217;m generally thinking about the stories ) and moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Nude Day story, and I&#8217;m hoping to finish it in time for the contest now.\u00a0 Bit of a tight deadline, but I&#8217;m going to try.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, I have a solid start on an Earth Day and Nude Day story in the Magic of the Wood series for next year :p\u00a0 Hope to make it only the Earth Day one, though.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s going to be priority, due to the deadline, but the way I work means that I&#8217;ll likely do some writing on Lowborn and SOTM as well.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been with me for a while know that I hit these down points.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not a lot I can do about them other than put everything aside and vegetate for a while.\u00a0 The more I try to fight them, the worse they are and the longer they last, because not being able to write frustrates me, which only drops my motivation even lower.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back to writing now, and we&#8217;ll see what&#8217;s in store as I move forward.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try much harder to keep the updates going here on the website as well.\u00a0 That&#8217;s even more unforgiveable than my spotty production rate.\u00a0 I could at least let you know that I&#8217;m in a down point and unable to write ( anything worth reading, anyway )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit a wall a while back and couldn&#8217;t concentrate on anything.\u00a0 It&#8217;s largely due to the steady increase in summer volume at work, making for longer hours, culminating in last week that was a horror show. The hours aren&#8217;t likely to calm down much for a while, but I think I&#8217;m at least adjusted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[13,29,30,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}