{"id":15682,"date":"2007-08-04T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/08\/04\/re-five\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"re-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/08\/04\/re-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just reposted Chapter Five of <em>Finitude<\/em>. Thanks to Chris and Lisa who dared to confirm what I felt when I first finished it, that it was a bit rushed and a bit thin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t change it all that much, but for some reason it&#8217;s shifted and now I&#8217;m happy with it. So on to Chapter Six tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Working on a Saturday night? Yeah. I tried to make plans, but they just didn&#8217;t stick with anyone, so I reverted to getting something done that I knew would feel meaningful and satisfying. I went to The Filmhouse, bought myself a pint, and got those revisions out of my imagination, onto the page.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s wrong to use writing as a refuge, a way of retreating to a world and an activity where I have total control over the outcome. And as Gloria Steinem said, &#8220;Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don&#8217;t feel I should be doing something else.&#8221;<\/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\/1031\/re-five0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just reposted Chapter Five of Finitude. Thanks to Chris and Lisa who dared to confirm what I felt when I first finished it, that it was a bit rushed and a bit thin. I didn&#8217;t change it all that much, but for some reason it&#8217;s shifted and now I&#8217;m happy with it. So on [&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-15682","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\/15682","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=15682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}