{"id":53,"date":"2014-08-21T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2014-08-22T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:16:57","slug":"harnessing-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges, and imperatives, of writing is finding time \u2013 making time &#8212; to sit down and do it. It\u2019s something like that moment in the movie Field of Dreams, where a mysterious voice says to Kevin Costner,\u00a0<em>If you build it they will come<\/em>. Except that in the case of writing, \u2018building it\u2019 means not creating a ballpark to attract ghostly baseball giants, but creating a little window of time in which to write. We can\u2019t make the writing come to us, but if we make a space for it in our day, it will inevitably show up. And if we don\u2019t make space for it, writing definitely won\u2019t come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writinguniversity.org\/podcast\/mary-allen-harnessing-time-the-key-to-writing\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for a podcast in which Mary Allen shares her own experiences and struggles with finding time to write, and passes along the workable solutions she\u2019s arrived at over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges, and imperatives, of writing is finding time \u2013 making time &#8212; to sit down and do it. It\u2019s something like that moment in the movie Field of Dreams, where a mysterious voice says to Kevin Costner,\u00a0If you build it they will come. Except that in the case of writing, \u2018building &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/?page_id=53\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harnessing Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iowawritingcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}