{"id":18472,"date":"2016-01-01T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2017-02-07T02:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T07:57:03","slug":"just-10-minutes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/just-10-minutes-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"just 10 minutes a day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2VkQDL\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface-255x300.jpg?resize=255%2C300\" alt=\"Watch Face, by Chris Roach, on Flickr, used under a CC-BY-NC 2.0 license\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface.jpg?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface.jpg?resize=768%2C904&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface.jpg?resize=870%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 870w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface.jpg?w=1760&amp;ssl=1 1760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/watchface.jpg?w=1260&amp;ssl=1 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, I happened upon Daphne Gray-Grant\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prdaily.com\/Main\/Articles\/19801.aspx\" title=\"How 5 minutes a day can revitalize your writing\" target=\"_blank\">How 5 minutes a day can revitalize your writing<\/a>.\u201d I am writing constantly, so I\u2019m not sure how much I need revitalized. I do know however that I have lots of quick thoughts or ideas that I want to get down so that I might be able to expand upon them later. <\/p>\n<p>I posted this thought about Gray-Grant\u2019s article on Facebook that day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wondering about this gimmick as a writing strategy\/resolution. I have so many one-off, short, undeveloped ideas floating through my head. What if instead of saving them for later (which almost never materializes) or giving them up because I don&#8217;t have time or the know-how to do the relevant research, what if instead of all that, I try to write them down in five minutes or so? <\/p>\n<p>The 10 in tengrrl makes me feel like that should be ten minutes rather than five, but even ten minutes a day is probably doable as long as I don&#8217;t get it into my head that every day has to be a stellar accomplishment. Maybe it&#8217;s time to create a new five (or ten) minute blog. I just have to decide whether this is a silly gimmick or a strategy for publishing ideas and stories that I too often give up on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2VkQDL\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Face, by Chris Roach, on Flickr<\/a>, used under a CC-BY-NC 2.0 license]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I happened upon Daphne Gray-Grant\u2019s \u201cHow 5 minutes a day can revitalize your writing.\u201d I am writing constantly, so I\u2019m not sure how much I need revitalized. I do know however that I have lots of quick thoughts or ideas that I want to get down so that I might be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4NW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18526,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions\/18526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}