{"id":378,"date":"2021-11-05T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:22:41","slug":"on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"On hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, after a week of reflection, my work is on hold temporarily because I am unsure as to what I might finish my book with. Where do I go from here? I have a kind of writer&#8217;s block and with holidays coming fast I think putting it aside, for the time being, is my best option. I will work on other things in the meantime. I know I have written about writer&#8217;s block before, but this can be a cruel problem that many writers face. It is not necessarily the lack of ideas but also a result of too many ideas at one time that makes a writer not know which way to go. This is where I stand. I have tried all my methods in moving past this block, but nothing seems to work. But sometimes I think people just need a break. Whether it is because of work or family or anything we do in life, taking a break can be good for one\u2019s soul. So that is what I will do now. I will take a break and start up again after the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone wishes me to speak on a subject, just leave a comment and I will be glad to talk about it.<\/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=\"1024\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"379\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=379\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-210x153.jpg 210w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-pixabay-301792-1960x1432.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week of reflection, my work is on hold temporarily because I am unsure as to what I might finish my book with. Where do I go from here? I have a kind of writer&#8217;s block and with holidays coming fast I think putting it aside, for the time being, is my best [&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\/378"}],"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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}