{"id":886,"date":"2004-04-21T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2004-04-21T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T12:30:26","slug":"where-i-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"where I went wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All these years, and I have never understood what creative writers do. Instead of shambling down to the kitchen and scrawling urgent, indecipherable notes on the shopping pad while the coffee brews, I could be preparing to work like the pros:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p> &#8216;Take a single red rose, place in a vase on your desk. Smell it. Light aromatic candles. Anoint your body with your favourite oil. Put on a silk negligee and rub your hands up and down your body. Pour a glass of chilled white wine. Close your eyes and imagine Tom Selleck is making love to you. Start writing.&#8217;  (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,6000,1195289,00.html\">from<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Or maybe I should just change my writing paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shitbegone.com\/\" title=\"Shit Be Gone! brand loo roll\">to a brand<\/a> that guarantees the essential work gets done.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these years, and I have never understood what creative writers do. Instead of shambling down to the kitchen and scrawling urgent, indecipherable notes on the shopping pad while the coffee brews, I could be preparing to work like the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}