{"id":1117,"date":"2013-01-09T22:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2013-01-09T22:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:13:23","slug":"inkstains-day-7-8-and-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"InkStains: Day 7, 8 and 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three words for the stories from three days:<\/p>\n<p>7: Simone, blade, spells<\/p>\n<p>8: youth, impressed, gifts<\/p>\n<p>9: ceremony, grandfather, chocolate<\/p>\n<p>The Day Job keeps me eleven hours a day four days a week, Monday through Thursday, which means I must rise early in the morning and I&#8217;ve got only so much time when I get home every night. Monday this week, I wrote during lunch, and sneaked a few minutes to myself at my desk later to finish the story. Tuesday, I had no choice but to finish during the day, at lunch, as a friend I hadn&#8217;t seen since before I left for Australia (over ten years ago) was stopping by for dinner. Today, however, I walked during lunch, and read, and didn&#8217;t open my journal until after dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The moral: sometimes, you have to steal moments from yourself. You find the time wherever it&#8217;s available, and you make it work. Plan for the times you can&#8217;t get your own work done; you still have to get it done. Yes, we can consider this a little lesson for all the artists out there who don&#8217;t think they have time. You don&#8217;t have to find it so much as you have to make it. And if you can&#8217;t squeeze them into the day, it&#8217;s okay to steal them from other parts of your day.<\/p>\n<p>Please, steal responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Three words for the stories from three days: 7: Simone, blade, spells 8: youth, impressed, gifts 9: ceremony, grandfather, chocolate The Day Job keeps me <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=1117\" title=\"InkStains: Day 7, 8 and 9\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}