{"id":581,"date":"2017-11-16T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:39:29","slug":"filling-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/filling-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling the Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

We writers live pretty solitary lives.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The upside is that we rarely have to put on actual pants (as defined by zippers & buttons rather than elastic & drawstrings). We also get to spend a lot of time having imaginary conversations with fictional people, which is awesome, because *revisions*<\/em>. I’ve heard there are people who\u00a0can convey their thoughts\u00a0to other humans in complete sentences in real time, but I am not one of them. I’m a word salad girl all the way, so\u00a0there’s something deeply satisfying about polishing dialogue\u00a0until it’s a witty, charming rat-a-tat-tat exchange that actually makes sense.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The downside to all this luxurious alone time?<\/p>\n

It’s lonely.\u00a0And (true story) you can get so good at lonely\u00a0that you sometimes forget you *are*<\/em> lonely, so you stay there until you get so weird that lonely is your only option.<\/p>\n

This sounds grim, I know, but stay with me. There’s a solution.<\/p>\n

Writer friends.<\/p>\n

Writer friends totally get it. They know where you are because they live there, too. They speak your language. They reach into the black hole of your alone time & drag you into the sun. Mostly they do it via the internet (nobody can text\/tweet\/instagram\/FB\/whathaveyou like writers) but sometimes…occasionally…they arrive IN PERSON.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And then the world is good and perfect and light and you talk non-stop until your husbands retreat to some high-profile sporting event so they can sit silently side-by-side, grunting at the field, drinking beer & avoiding both eye contact and verbal interaction. Because they’ve had enough of us & the words. (So many words. ALL THE WORDS.)<\/p>\n

So as I look down the barrel of Thanksgiving (good gravy, people, it’s next week!), I’m pausing for a moment to give thanks for my squad. Particularly for the incomparable Inara Scott<\/a>, who got on a plane & braved actual snow (!) because she loves me.<\/p>\n

And because I love her, I put on pants.<\/p>\n

And because our husbands love us, they went to a football game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We writers live pretty solitary lives. The upside is that we rarely have to put on actual pants (as defined by zippers & buttons rather than elastic & drawstrings). We also get to spend a lot of time having imaginary conversations with fictional people, which is awesome, because *revisions*. I’ve heard there are people who\u00a0can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-writers-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}