{"id":104451,"date":"2016-04-20T23:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/20\/sometimes-as-a-writer-you-need-to-ease-up-on\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:27:21","slug":"sometimes-as-a-writer-you-need-to-ease-up-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/20\/sometimes-as-a-writer-you-need-to-ease-up-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sometimes, as a writer, you need to ease up on your brain. Don\u2019t unplug it entirely. Just stop shaking it frantically between your hands like a piggy bank, hoping for some loose change to fall out. Clean your room. Water the plants. Give your brain a break and see what it can do with some downtime. It never fails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karunariazi\" target=\"_blank\">Karuna Riazi<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>is an online diversity advocate, essayist and overwhelmed undergrad student. Her debut novel,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29346880-the-gauntlet-of-blood-and-sand\" target=\"_blank\">The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand<\/a><\/i>, will be released in 2017 under Simon and Schuster\u2019s new Salaam Reads imprint.<\/p>\n<p><i>Writer\u2019s Care Packages from <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fcampnanowrimo.org&amp;t=ZGZkZTc0MGI4OWE0ZmNlNDFlYjBlZTUyNmMyZDJmZGZmZjA4NDJhZCxXSll4YWRiag%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Camp NaNoWriMo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fdiversebooks.org%2F&amp;t=NjQ2ODk5N2M3ZDEyOGZkMGVlM2ZkNWJjZGRlYzU4MjQ1ODBjNmU2OCxXSll4YWRiag%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">We Need Diverse Books<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, as a writer, you need to ease up on your brain. Don\u2019t unplug it entirely. Just stop shaking it frantically between your hands like a piggy bank, hoping for some loose change to fall out. Clean your room. Water the plants. Give your brain a break and see what it can do with some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/20\/sometimes-as-a-writer-you-need-to-ease-up-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2411,4,45,12900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}