{"id":3442,"date":"2009-08-22T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2009-08-22T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T03:57:11","slug":"a-dark-and-stormy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"A dark and stormy day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>When the storm clouds rolled in on Tuesday, I went into a writing place almost immediately.\u00a0 My novel bones got itchy, wanted to scratch out a new book.\u00a0 Fall, as it gets darker and grimmer, colder somehow turns a creative crank, my engine sputters to life.<\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s richness right now jolts me, makes me feel able.\u00a0 This is not a constant feeling, so I like to ride it when it arrives.\u00a0 How to work a novel&#8217;s discipline into my days?\u00a0 As the garden winds down, those hours can go for writing.\u00a0 I could write at night, after working out.\u00a0 I have the juice later in the day and early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the next stormy day I&#8217;ll get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon When the storm clouds rolled in on Tuesday, I went into a writing place almost immediately.\u00a0 My novel bones got itchy, wanted to scratch out a new book.\u00a0 Fall, as it gets darker and grimmer, colder somehow turns a creative crank, my engine sputters to life. Life&#8217;s richness right now jolts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A dark and stormy day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}