{"id":6362,"date":"2020-09-14T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2020-09-14T06:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:25:05","slug":"what-to-write-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/what-to-write-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Write About"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6362\" data-postid=\"6362\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6362 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>What do you write about when you have nothing to write? I don&#8217;t have writer&#8217;s block. I simply have no book to write for the first time in 20 years. I have three books in the can so that&#8217;s saying something, I suppose. There was such urgency with the Western, the X-Mas tales, the dog book and collection of ghost-written short stories, but now, nothing is urgent because there is no project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels strange, off, vertiginous. I do have an idea for an ecological-themed mystery\/detective novel called <em>The Watershed<\/em>, but it requires considerable on-the-ground research across the region and obviously that&#8217;s not going to happen anytime soon, if ever. So here I am writing about not writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurs to me as I write this that I could start assembling all my writing about driftwood forts and choosing the best photographs for a possible newsprint publication. But that&#8217;s not writing a book. The driftwood fort book is already written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps an idea will come as the result of misfortune such as the one that inspired<em> Love &amp; The Green Lady<\/em>, or how a brutal breakup inspired <em>Of Walking in Rain<\/em>, or how a pulverizing catastrophe inspired <em>Bonnie and Clyde.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps I am not seeing opportunity in the Pandemic and the disaster of the Trump Residency and the fires and the ongoing call for racial justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you write about when you have nothing to write? I don&#8217;t have writer&#8217;s block. I simply have no book to write for the first time in 20 years. I have three books in the can so that&#8217;s saying something, I suppose. There was such urgency with the Western, the X-Mas tales, the dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}