{"id":339,"date":"2021-08-23T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:04:42","slug":"the-word-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/the-word-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"The word Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAlone. Yes, that&#8217;s the keyword, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.\u201d<br>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like how this was said because someone\u2019s worse enemy is not a murderer but aloneness. There is a psychological understanding when we look at the word alone. According to the dictionary, the word alone means isolation from others, although this can be felt by having no one near a person in a person\u2019s mind, both have effects on a person\u2019s mental state. When I look at the word alone, I see two categories, the state of being alone among others and the state of being alone with yourself. Each affects the mental state of a person and we can use these ideas in our writings, I know I do. In my next two blogs, I will look at these two states in detail and show how we can use them in writing. I do find that so many things can go horribly for a person and there are so many evils that we could come across and write, but the idea of the word alone I do believe is what people fear the most, even the end of the planet does not put as much fear into a person as the word alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about the word alone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/smoke-1031060_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"340\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/smoke-1031060_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=340\" class=\"wp-image-340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/smoke-1031060_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/smoke-1031060_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/smoke-1031060_640-210x140.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlone. Yes, that&#8217;s the keyword, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.\u201d\u2015\u00a0Stephen King I like how this was said because someone\u2019s worse enemy is not a murderer but aloneness. There is a psychological understanding when we look at the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}