{"id":123,"date":"2013-02-03T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2013\/02\/03\/creative-surge-plus-anxiety-equals-wait-what-is-productivity\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T06:57:00","slug":"creative-surge-plus-anxiety-equals-wait-what-is-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2013\/02\/03\/creative-surge-plus-anxiety-equals-wait-what-is-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATIVE SURGE plus ANXIETY equals &#8220;Wait, what is productivity?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ShPRLYluavA\/UQ4KTg2WGhI\/AAAAAAAABsI\/rKSWJK0WTMY\/s1600\/dreamstimefree_74519.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ShPRLYluavA\/UQ4KTg2WGhI\/AAAAAAAABsI\/rKSWJK0WTMY\/s320\/dreamstimefree_74519.jpg?resize=320%2C224\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>About once a month this happens to me: I suddenly get overwhelmed with creative ideas, particularly if I&#8217;m starting a new project, and my brain runs away from me before my body (typing fingers) can keep up. This then leads to serious anxiety (especially if I&#8217;m on a time limit or money is an issue) that basically leads me to running in a giant circles going LKSDFKLAFKLAKLDA and not getting a single thing done.<\/p>\n<p>Woo.<\/p>\n<p>This is happening to me tonight. It began around 6pm when I was facing the obstacles of my new pen name rolling out in a couple weeks. Next thing I knew, it was 10pm and almost NOTHING had gotten done. Once again: woo.<\/p>\n<p>I always come to the same conclusion: Hildred, sleep on it. Odds are things will be clearer in the morning (or you know late afternoon for me.) <\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one with this productivity canceling issue? What do you do when anxiety is colliding with the creative process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About once a month this happens to me: I suddenly get overwhelmed with creative ideas, particularly if I&#8217;m starting a new project, and my brain runs away from me before my body (typing fingers) can keep up. This then leads to serious anxiety (especially if I&#8217;m on a time limit or money is an issue)&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[144,143,44,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety","category-planning","category-real-life","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}