{"id":294,"date":"2011-12-07T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:52:41","slug":"when-youre-stuck-trying-to-write-a-first-draft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/when-youre-stuck-trying-to-write-a-first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re stuck trying to write a first draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer&#8217;s block is a familiar phenomenon to both students and professional writers.\u00a0 Perhaps the simplest thing to realize is that you can always write, even if you&#8217;re blocked.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called freewriting.\u00a0 Another technique is simply listing all the thoughts that come to your mind.\u00a0 After you&#8217;ve done some of this informal writing, you may in a relaxed fashion reread what you&#8217;ve written to search for those nuggets that seem promising.\u00a0 In this example, you can see the student\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/freewrite-leading-to-an-idea-for-an-essay\/\">freewriting about an essay<\/a>\u00a0she has read in order to discover her own idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer&#8217;s block is a familiar phenomenon to both students and professional writers.\u00a0 Perhaps the simplest thing to realize is that you can always write, even if you&#8217;re blocked.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called freewriting.\u00a0 Another technique is simply listing all the thoughts that come to your mind.\u00a0 After you&#8217;ve done some of this informal writing, you may in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/when-youre-stuck-trying-to-write-a-first-draft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When you&#8217;re stuck trying to write a first draft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}