{"id":911,"date":"2015-02-23T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:31:57","slug":"pesky-writer-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/23\/pesky-writer-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesky Writer Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reached that point again where I can&#8217;t shut off my pesky writer brain. Every time I conclude a draft, or revision, or beta round, etc., I <em>know<\/em> I should relax, take a vacation, ignore the buzzing ideas in my head. Sleep more, maybe. And in theory it&#8217;s a good idea. But in practice, nuh uh, ain&#8217;t happening. You can try and fight it, but the nagging just won&#8217;t stahp!<\/p>\n<p>When you finish whatever you&#8217;re working on:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mamatoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stephen-colbert-celebration-gif.gif?resize=320%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, you think you&#8217;re mentally exhausted:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reactiongifs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/exhausted.gif?resize=500%2C302\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But your brain is sooooo not. It wants that new idea:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comedytime.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/funny-gifs-crazy-crab-cat-chasing-laser-pointer.gif?resize=320%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You try to find things to keep you occupied:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/AbcPa9eopEi5O\/giphy.gif?resize=500%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anything:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/8TdwV4E.gif?resize=500%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/LiTTNQx8gGlrO\/giphy.gif?resize=500%2C227\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But your brain keeps racing through ideas for the plot bunny:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-SXuF6QqUDhw\/VJwnmEgrm9I\/AAAAAAAABBA\/eJCC-G7cRt4\/w506-h750\/flash9.gif?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter how hard you try to ignore it, the idea keeps bothering you:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lh2b66A4t31qggr45o1_500.gif?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you give up:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m5lofd1ulk1roruow.gif?resize=500%2C244\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you start working:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awesomelytechie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Typing.gif?resize=500%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The struggle is real.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reached that point again where I can&#8217;t shut off my pesky writer brain. Every time I conclude a draft, or revision, or beta round, etc., I know I should relax, take a vacation, ignore the buzzing ideas in my head. Sleep more, maybe. And in theory it&#8217;s a good idea. But in practice, nuh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YHlB-eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}