{"id":2627,"date":"2019-09-17T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:12:03","slug":"activities-to-stimulate-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/09\/17\/activities-to-stimulate-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities to Stimulate Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2643\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5.jpg 1247w, http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5-768x655.jpg 768w, http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5-1024x874.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5-250x213.jpg 250w, http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/writing5-450x384.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><br \/>\nWriters have days filled with ideas and days of quiet with or without desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Some days it seems as if ideas flow so fast you can&#8217;t get them down on paper or onto your computer. Other days it&#8217;s like a desert in your mind where time and ideas are not within reach. For those dry days, here are a few suggestions that might awaken your creative mind or at least take your thinking to different places.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go for a walk, a run or a bike ride in a new location<\/li>\n<li>Take a new route home from work<\/li>\n<li>Visit a museum, art gallery, street fair or book reading event<\/li>\n<li>Star gaze<\/li>\n<li>Bake or cook something out of the ordinary<\/li>\n<li>Read a book in a genre different from your usual interest<\/li>\n<li>Shop for a silly gift for a friend and deliver it in person<\/li>\n<li>Plant bulbs for spring<\/li>\n<li>Buy a new journal and start writing down those straying thoughts<\/li>\n<li>Write letters to yourself about yourself and where you grew up<\/li>\n<li>Take a nap<\/li>\n<li>Listen to your favorite music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers have days filled with ideas and days of quiet with or without desperation. Some days it seems as if ideas flow so fast you can&#8217;t get them down on paper or onto your computer. Other days it&#8217;s like a desert in your mind where time and ideas are not within reach. For those dry days, here are a few suggestions that might awaken your creative mind or at least take your thinking to different places. Go for a walk, a run or a bike ride in a new location Take a new route home from work Visit a museum,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,124],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-writing","tag-writing-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}