{"id":199,"date":"2020-11-24T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-11-24T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:49:58","slug":"new-writing-at-pithead-chapel-after-a-long-dry-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"New writing at Pithead Chapel (after a long dry spell)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every writer I know has had trouble writing during the pandemic. Every artist I know has struggled to create. Sometimes art and stories feel meaningless. Plus, it&#8217;s hard to concentrate. But creation is more important than ever right now, as we try to find something to hold on to in the most difficult days. <br>I wrote nothing for four months. That might be the longest I&#8217;ve ever gone without writing in my entire life. Even as a kid I wrote poems. Even as a single mom I wrote columns. Those first few months of covid, though, they were tough. I couldn&#8217;t hold a thought, nevermind make a beautiful sentence. <br>I took classes instead. Zoom classes, of course. One in particular, with writer Laraine Herring about the processes and effects of grief, opened up a path. I wrote for 15 minutes a day &#8211; and not even every day, just most days. I wrote in pieces, whatever I could manage, then connected those pieces together. What I came up with encapsulated everything I&#8217;ve been feeling all these months: fear, anger, disappointment, suffering, disconnection. This is what I came up with. Thank you to Pithead Chapel for publishing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>https:\/\/pitheadchapel.com\/stuck-birds\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every writer I know has had trouble writing during the pandemic. Every artist I know has struggled to create. Sometimes art and stories feel meaningless. Plus, it&#8217;s hard to concentrate. But creation is more important than ever right now, as we try to find something to hold on to in the most difficult days. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyfontaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}