{"id":1731,"date":"2012-01-07T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2012-01-07T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:00:45","slug":"back-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/back-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Back When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hanker for the days of just doing it:  here&#8217;s the environment, here&#8217;re the characters &#8211; <i>See them walk!  Action reveals character!  Environment reveals theme!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The days of just firing up the laptop, typing in <a style=\"font-family: Courier;\">FADE IN:<\/a>, and seeing what happens next are long gone.  Time is finite.  Enthusiasm will carry one only so far.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to draw some comfort from <b>John August<\/b>, et al, about <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/2011\/writing-faster\" target=\"_blank\">writing faster<\/a> and smarter.  And I shall not forsake the small voice of stubborn and wilful ignorance in my head &#8211; <i><a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/uh-oh\/\">How hard<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/22\/a-blessed-warm-blog\/\">can it<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/runs\/\">be to<\/a> [INSERT TASK\/PROJECT]?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hanker for the days of just doing it: here&#8217;s the environment, here&#8217;re the characters &#8211; See them walk! Action reveals character! Environment reveals theme! The days of just firing up the laptop, typing in FADE IN:, and seeing what happens next are long gone. Time is finite. Enthusiasm will carry one only so far. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/back-when\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back When&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}