{"id":1075,"date":"2015-01-03T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:23:46","slug":"i-dont-have-to-write-anything-if-i-dont-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/03\/i-dont-have-to-write-anything-if-i-dont-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Have To Write Anything If I Don\u2019t Want To"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 3rd:<\/strong> No Prompt?<\/p>\n

There does not appear to be a prompt for January 3rd. How does that make you feel?<\/em><\/p>\n

Today is the 5th of May, and I am trying to catch up on a 4 months of missed daily prompts. This is a Herculean task. There\u2019s no way I will accomplish it. No way I\u2019m going to write something for 124 missed days.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll take weeks, and even if I had started Postaday on January 1st, I would have lost interest before weeks had passed. This is a stupid idea. And no one going to read any of this, ever. Especially not me!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gone to the Postaday website and copied a whole bunch of prompts, but this one, for the 3rd, is missing. I don\u2019t know why. I don\u2019t know if it was never there or if it was and got deleted by accident. I could do some sleuthing, read the blog entries of people who HAVE been doing Postaday since January 1st, see if they wrote something on the 3rd. In fact, maybe I will. Maybe I will once I\u2019ve written the other 123 back entries.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve bitten off WAY more than I can chew. This is ludicrous. I never finish ANYTHING. Okay, fine, I DID finish the Blogging University April class. But that was ONE entry per day, and nothing on weekends. I actually have it in my head that I\u2019m going towrite SEVEN per day until I catch up!<\/p>\n

Why? Is there a part of me that wants to punish me for bad behavior? Like when a dad catches his son sneaking a cigarette, and makes him smoke the whole pack? Am I trying to humiliate myself? Do I need hit the bottom so I can rebuild myself as a writer?<\/p>\n

Maybe. I want to write this stupid book, the one I\u2019ll probably mention again and again, the spy novel with the robot assassin. Am I encumbering myself with this stupidly impossible endeavor to avoid admitting I can\u2019t write novels, I just can\u2019t, give Stephen Hawking a pole-vaulters pole and he\u2019ll do better than I do at novel writing?<\/p>\n

How does it make me FEEL that there\u2019s no prompt for today? I don\u2019t know, relieved, I guess, that I don\u2019t have to write anything if I don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 3rd: No Prompt? There does not appear to be a prompt for January 3rd. How does that make you feel? Today is the 5th of May, and I am trying to catch up on a 4 months of missed daily prompts. This is a Herculean task. There\u2019s no way I will accomplish it. No … <\/p>\n

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