{"id":422,"date":"2007-12-13T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-42\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:11:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You&#8217;re there now doing the thing on paper. You&#8217;re not killing the goose, you&#8217;re just producing an egg. So I don&#8217;t worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It&#8217;s a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I&#8217;ve heard about it. I&#8217;ve felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I&#8217;d much rather go fishing. for example. or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, &#8216;Well, now it&#8217;s writing time and now I&#8217;ll write.&#8217; There&#8217;s no difference on paper between the two. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frank Herbert<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You&#8217;re there now doing the thing on paper. You&#8217;re not killing the goose, you&#8217;re just producing an egg. So I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/13\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-42\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}