{"id":8,"date":"2004-10-19T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-10-19T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T08:18:48","slug":"inspiring-truthful-and-encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/inspiring-truthful-and-encouraging\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring, truthful, and encouraging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/images\/ifuwant.jpg\" alt=\"If You Want to Write (book cover)\" title=\"If You Want to Write (book cover)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1555972608\/\">If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit<\/a> by Brenda Ueland.<\/p>\n<p>I found this gem on a bookshelf at my cousin&#8217;s house. It is definitely worth reading and re-reading. I am half way through it, but I intend to read it many more times. Written in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just about writing, but about creativity and the attitude towards life that fosters creativity and even worship (as I interpret the book). It is chock full of truth and inspiration and recitable&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice one I shared with my writing team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten,&#8211;happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~ds8s\/dorr\/beads.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~ds8s\/dorr\/images\/beads.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"125\" alt=\"Stringing Beads\" title=\"Stringing Beads\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland. I found this gem on a bookshelf at my cousin&#8217;s house. It is definitely worth reading and re-reading. I am half way through it, but I intend to read it many more times. Written in 1938. It&#8217;s not just about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}