{"id":135,"date":"2025-11-16T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:57:56","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/2025\/11\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to write but have no idea where to write, grab a journal from your local dollar store. Find a place you are comfortable writing. Set your alarm an hour earlier, grab a coffee, tea, water, or juice. Open a window look out it and describe what you see. Every little detail. Pick up your writing implement and begin writing, write whatever comes to your mind. Plan to write three pages back and front. If you think you\u2019ve run out of things to say, start writing I can\u2019t think of anything over and over. You brain will get tired of it and give you something to write about. Trust me it works. Stop when you have three full pages.<\/p>\n<p>You have just written Morning Pages, they are a brain dump. Anything that was bothering you, any idea you had for anything it\u2019s all there. Date it, close it up and go start your day. If you are not a morning person and it\u2019s all you can do to face the day, I have a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Write before you go to bed at night. Turn off the computer, the TV. If you need quiet music to unwind use it. Find your spot to write and do the three pages of writing. There will be nothing in your brain to keep you from a good night\u2019s sleep. These are what I call Evening Pages. Be sure to date them.<\/p>\n<p>Stick around for more writing tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to write but have no idea where to write, grab a journal from your local dollar store. Find a place you are comfortable writing. Set your alarm an hour earlier, grab a coffee, tea, water, or juice. Open a window look out it and describe what you see. Every little detail. Pick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/2025\/11\/getting-started\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Started&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeckavigus.us\/rav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}