{"id":5640,"date":"2013-01-08T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:38:19","slug":"how-i-make-my-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2013\/01\/how-i-make-my-work.html","title":{"rendered":"How I make my work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to say &#8216;disinterestedly&#8217; but that&#8217;s too self-aggrandising. &#8216;Distractedly&#8217; is probably more apt. Write a sentence, pace around the house. Look up a reference, end up rereading half of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/aug\/05\/vainglory-inclinations-caprice-firbank-review\"><em>Vainglory<\/em><\/a>. As I think I&#8217;ve mentioned before, figuring out all the details is OK, but the execution is where I start to lose interest.  Once I see it&#8217;s going to do what I hoped for, I get sidetracked again and start working on something else.<\/p>\n<p>After that, work progresses in infrequent dribs and drabs. Even trivial pieces can have a longer gestation period than <em>Ulysses<\/em>. There&#8217;s no sense of anticipation when a piece is nearing completion, either to hasten or delay the end. The work continues indifferently, in small increments until, quite unexpectedly, there&#8217;s no more to do. Like absent-mindedly munching on crisps until you dip your hand in one more time and realise you&#8217;ve finished the bag. You weren&#8217;t even all that hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to say &#8216;disinterestedly&#8217; but that&#8217;s too self-aggrandising. &#8216;Distractedly&#8217; is probably more apt. Write a sentence, pace around the house. Look up a reference, end up rereading half of Vainglory. As I think I&#8217;ve mentioned before, figuring out all the details is OK, but the execution is where I start to lose interest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}