{"id":15662,"date":"2007-11-07T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/11\/07\/mort-a-la-resistance\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"mort-a-la-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/11\/07\/mort-a-la-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort a la resistance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot, forgot the Fifth of November. Ah well, no fireworks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eating more and feeling sluggish. I&#8217;m having trouble staying focused. I guess it&#8217;s the change of season. I&#8217;ve taken up my exercise plan with extra vigour, because I know December in Canada will involve lots of eating. But I&#8217;ve resolved to stick with my vegetarianism through Christmas. I can&#8217;t defend any reason why I wouldn&#8217;t. So Mom, Dad, I&#8217;m going to make a pie instead of having turkey. At least you believe I can cook now (I barely believe it myself).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t much to write, because not much is going on. Work is great and chock-full of projects, as is the rest of life, but it&#8217;s all happening in my head, not out where it shows up as news to report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My biggest frustration is that I&#8217;ve drifted away from the book. I got the last chapter out, which was a big one to write. I was excited about it and wanted to keep going, but then I got busy with other projects, and now I find myself facing&#8230; <i>the distance.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve often said, there&#8217;s no such thing as Writer&#8217;s Block. That&#8217;s simply a by-product of losing your place in the creative process, thinking about product or effect when you should be focused on craft and imagination.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And yet, every time I step away from the work, that distance gets in there, and manifests as resistance to the work. I feel fear and uncertainty, and while I&#8217;ve been through this process enough times to recognise this for what it is (and to know that it never goes away), the experience of it is no less real.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The trick, of course, is just to take that first faith-filled step from the boat onto the waves. I know I&#8217;ll do it, but I haven&#8217;t yet. Of course, that thought is just another facet of the resistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1051\/mort-a-la-resistance01.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot, forgot the Fifth of November. Ah well, no fireworks. I&#8217;m eating more and feeling sluggish. I&#8217;m having trouble staying focused. I guess it&#8217;s the change of season. I&#8217;ve taken up my exercise plan with extra vigour, because I know December in Canada will involve lots of eating. But I&#8217;ve resolved to stick with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}