{"id":150,"date":"2012-03-29T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=150"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:27:04","slug":"scheduling-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2012\/03\/29\/scheduling-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?&#8221; \u00a0&#8211;<em>Eihei D\u014dgen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recently immersed myself in the craft of shaving with a nineteenth-century straight razor. It&#8217;s an interesting journey for sure, and the benefits are numerous. There are no more nicks and scratches, it saves money, it&#8217;s better for the environment (no waste besides soap and water!), I feel connected to the past, and it makes me feel downright <em>manly<\/em>. Most importantly, the intricate techniques involved force me to slow down and consider every delicate move I make. It certainly isn&#8217;t a process to be rushed; to achieve perfection and avoid giving myself a few extra smiles, I must set aside time each morning specifically for this enjoyable and meditative ritual.<br \/>\nLike using this venerable shaving method, learning to develop our writing talents requires setting time aside explicitly\u00a0for the tasks at hand. Many writers have the tendency to procrastinate (including me!), and it can be difficult allocating time out\u00a0of our day specifically for writing. Some of us even fall into the habit of <em>needing<\/em> the pressure in order to create\u00a0something. However, if we start small- say, fifteen minutes each morning- learning to make writing part of our\u00a0cluttered schedules will have immeasurable benefits to the craft and product. When your mind isn&#8217;t trying to\u00a0simultaneously cook dinner, watch television, and worry about the doom of an impending deadline, you become absolutely\u00a0free to generate ideas and improve your writing ability. Before you know it, you&#8217;ll be crafting mellifluous prose and\u00a0penning one-liners sharp enough to make a razor blush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?&#8221; \u00a0&#8211;Eihei D\u014dgen &nbsp; I recently immersed myself in the craft of shaving with a nineteenth-century straight razor. It&#8217;s an interesting journey for sure, and the benefits are numerous. There are no more nicks and scratches, it saves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}