{"id":27,"date":"2007-09-26T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-03-28T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:04:51","slug":"doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to one of my earlier posts, I&#8217;m pondering whether a strange variation of combined writer&#8217;s block has hit the forums collectively, over at the &#8216;Lounge. It seems every which way I turn, someone&#8217;s mourning the absence of words. Words. It&#8217;s all about words, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Mine is a little more sinister: fear. And somewhere underneath it all, is the feeling I can&#8217;t get away from: I am undeserving because I did the one thing I thought I&#8217;d never to &#8211; push it away &#8211; and now, it seems I&#8217;m terrified of calling it back. At the end of the day, I&#8217;ve defined myself through my work, and if I&#8217;m not a writer than who the hell am I?<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;and this just in. We&#8217;ve got a serious contribution request from a Daily Times reporter &#8211; just checked my inbox. Is that neat, or what? Seems like we&#8217;re really kicking things off. Hinteresting, so very hinteresting, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Things seem to be looking up for the Lounge. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but we&#8217;re getting somewhere. The only way to move is forward, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this just lifted me from my writer&#8217;s doldrums. How heavenly.<\/p>\n<p>It also looks like I&#8217;ll be starting the podcasts after all, and probably on my own. How strange that the first voice people will hear will be mine, representing DesiWritersLounge.net. I find that decidedly odd. However, it&#8217;s all in the name of progress after all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to moving forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to one of my earlier posts, I&#8217;m pondering whether a strange variation of combined writer&#8217;s block has hit the forums collectively, over at the &#8216;Lounge. It seems every which way I turn, someone&#8217;s mourning the absence of words. Words. It&#8217;s all about words, isn&#8217;t it? Mine is a little more sinister: fear. And somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}