{"id":609,"date":"2015-01-08T00:59:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:59:48","slug":"finishing-projects-feels-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2015\/01\/08\/finishing-projects-feels-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing projects feels good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the end of December 2013, I came upon a post with pretty pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/awesomer\/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world\">the 33 most beautiful abandoned places in the world<\/a>. One of those clickbaity list posts, but this one struck a chord. I love the desolate beauty of abandoned things. <\/p>\n<p>And so I decided to write something about all 33, inspired by the pictures but not necessarily relating to the real-world location or function of the place. I had thought I&#8217;d finish it all by the end of January 2014, but I didn&#8217;t keep at it diligently enough. I had a months-long pause and forgot all about it, but in mid-December I finally kickstarted my project again. And now, I have just finished writing a poem about the 33rd picture. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t manage to finish this project in the time frame I&#8217;d initially set myself, but I did finish in the end! And now I have 33 pieces of flash fiction and poems based on the pictures. Some of them will never make it past the initial draft phase; some of them I&#8217;ve already edited and sent off; some of them are rough now but contain interesting kernels of plot and character that might grow into proper stories one day; one of them will be published this year (as &#8220;The Ruin&#8221; in <em>Luna Station Quarterly<\/em>). Most excellent. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered that writing prompted by a picture is a good way for me to get my brain jogged into action. Will have to keep finding interesting pictures to leap into and write about. I should keep doing writing exercises of other sorts as often as I can, too &#8211; they&#8217;re a great way of building up writing muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the end of December 2013, I came upon a post with pretty pictures of the 33 most beautiful abandoned places in the world. One of those clickbaity list posts, but this one struck a chord. I love the desolate beauty of abandoned things. And so I decided to write something about all 33, inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51,10,6,19],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-flash-fiction","category-personal-babble","category-poetry","category-short-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}