{"id":4000,"date":"2015-04-29T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2015-04-26T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:37:21","slug":"keeping-a-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/thumbs.dreamstime.com\/z\/antique-vintage-diary-journal-book-cover-old-brown-decorative-floral-distressed-shabby-34173020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"268\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/268;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thumbs.dreamstime.com\/z\/antique-vintage-diary-journal-book-cover-old-brown-decorative-floral-distressed-shabby-34173020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"268\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Lately I have started keeping a journal, more than one actually, and I am having a lot of fun. I find that keeping a notebook in my purse makes me even more likely to jot down notes to myself throughout the day. A day job does not stop my characters from giving me ideas&#8230;thank God!<\/p>\n<p>I read The Artist&#8217;s Way by Julia Cameron many years ago when I was creatively blocked, and Morning Pages (writing three pages of stream of consciousness every morning) and journaling are a big part of that work. I find that by doing both, I am clearing my mind of old business and new confusions, while making room for more beauty to grow, both in my life and in my art. And it is a joy. If you&#8217;re a blocked artist, or just looking for the next novel idea, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have started keeping a journal, more than one actually, and I am having a lot of fun. I find that keeping a notebook in my purse makes me even more likely to jot down notes to myself throughout the day. A day job does not stop my characters from giving me ideas&#8230;thank God! &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=4000\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping a Journal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}