{"id":56,"date":"2012-01-19T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-01-19T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T07:15:00","slug":"writers-store-tip-dont-break-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Store Tip: Don&#8217;t Break the Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I&#8217;ve been recording the time I spend working on screenplays. It is a way of keeping me aware of how much (or little) I&#8217;ve been working, and on what projects.<\/p>\n<p>An email I received from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Writer&#8217;s Store<\/a><\/em> had a nifty tip, along a similar line. It is an idea inspired by Jerry Seinfeld. He has a calendar that he prints out and sticks at his desk, and on that calendar he marks down every day he writes new material.<\/p>\n<p>He&nbsp;marks off&nbsp;the days where&nbsp;he writes new material, and the idea is to keep stringing work days together. It is a visual reminder and incentive not to &#8216;break the chain&#8217; of days you&#8217;ve worked on scripts.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea!<\/p>\n<p>And <em>The Writer&#8217;s Store<\/em> has been kind enough to put a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersstore.com\/dont-break-the-chain-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> of a calendar you, too, can print and put up near your desk as inspiration to write and write.<\/p>\n<p>So remember: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersstore.com\/dont-break-the-chain-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don&#8217;t Break the Chain!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I&#8217;ve been recording the time I spend working on screenplays. It is a way of keeping me aware of how much (or little) I&#8217;ve been working, and on what projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-break-the-chain","category-tips","category-writers-store"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}