{"id":1441636,"date":"2021-11-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441636"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:37:01","slug":"15-quotes-by-famous-authors-that-will-cure-your-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/15-quotes-by-famous-authors-that-will-cure-your-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Quotes That Will Instantly Cure Your Writer&#8217;s Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/111419writersblockcureMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The middle of November is a very chaotic time of year. Everyone&#8217;s arguing about whether we celebrate Christmas too early, the sun sets at 10 AM, and depending on where you live it&#8217;s either snowing or it&#8217;s not. That&#8217;s a lot of stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And God help you if you&#8217;re doing NaNoWriMo. What, I&#8217;m just supposed to contend with the rigors of daily life <em>and <\/em>bang out a 50,000-word novel? It was fun for the first few days, but now we&#8217;re halfway through the month and I feel like I&#8217;m drowning in Google Chrome tabs and incompetence. Yes, I&#8217;m aware that I did this voluntarily! I know I can stop anytime! Shut up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re doing NaNoWriMo but you&#8217;re stuck\u2014or even if you&#8217;re not doing NaNoWriMo but you&#8217;re still stuck\u2014here are some helpful tips from famous writers who went through the same hell you&#8217;re going through and came out the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle of November is a very chaotic time of year. Everyone&#8217;s arguing about whether we celebrate Christmas too early, the sun sets at 10 AM, and depending on where you live it&#8217;s either snowing   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[9807,613,8528,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441636"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445673,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441636\/revisions\/1445673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}