{"id":544,"date":"2007-10-30T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/30\/you-learn-something-every-day\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T13:29:10","slug":"you-learn-something-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/30\/you-learn-something-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"You learn something every day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt something about myself today. It&#8217;s not often that happens. I have afterall been living with myself for nearly 37 years and have had plenty of time to figure me out. I know for example that I can be a little stubborn. I have a very small streak for exaggeration. I am generally shy but also have no small amount of belief in myself, a tad arrogance some would say, when it comes to things like work. I am creative but my talent isn&#8217;t well formed enough to see it all through. I have stories that I now people want to hear, want to see, want to read; I just can&#8217;t get them down. I have game designs that people will want to play. I&#8217;m lazy. I can be self absorbed. The list could go on.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy writing and I enjoy creative writing, but the thing I found out today is that I like the process. Actually the process isn&#8217;t right, it&#8217;s kind of hard to explain what it is that I actually like, but let me try:<\/p>\n<p>When I write I talk to myself in my head, I hear one word just before I write it. If I am not writing it I hear the whole process. That is the bit I like. I like the rawness of what I can hear in my head. That is my best work. The words forming in my brain before anything can mess with them. I hear the dialogue of people. I hear the narrator telling the story. I hear my imagination working at its best and it is so refreshing, so inspiring. All I need is to be able to capture it in a way that I am happy with&#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Writing\" title=\"Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Writing\" rel=\"tag\" >Writing<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Thinking\" title=\"Thinking\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Thinking\" rel=\"tag\" >Thinking<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Stories\" title=\"Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Stories\" rel=\"tag\" >Stories<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Belief\" title=\"Belief\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Belief\" rel=\"tag\" >Belief<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Believing\" title=\"Believing\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Believing\" rel=\"tag\" >Believing<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Creative\" title=\"Creative\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Creative\" rel=\"tag\" >Creative<\/a><br\/>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt something about myself today. It&#8217;s not often that happens. I have afterall been living with myself for nearly 37 years and have had plenty of time to figure me out. I know for example that I can be a little stubborn. I have a very small streak for exaggeration. I am generally shy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/30\/you-learn-something-every-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You learn something every day.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,23,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ego","category-likes","category-thoughts","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-8M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}