{"id":7926,"date":"2014-07-30T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2014-07-30T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T05:55:10","slug":"wednesday-blogging-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=7926","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Blogging: Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jenny,&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all probably not wondering, &#8220;what is it that motivates you to keep to your office hermitage, barely seeking the sunlight or the warm embrace of the outside world?&#8221; Well, I&#8217;ll tell you. I have several powerful motivators:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Fear of poverty<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re new to this here blog, you&#8217;ve missed a really exciting past five years. After my career shot around the room making fart noises as it rapidly deflated, I just kept working right along, until the day I no longer gave a fuck and started mocking\u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>. I owe a lot to that book. If I hadn&#8217;t decided, &#8220;Fuck it, this book is so bad, I don&#8217;t care if no publisher will ever touch me again, if I&#8217;m going down, I&#8217;m going out in a blaze,&#8221; and started viciously mocking it on the internet, I wouldn&#8217;t have gotten the courage to say &#8220;Fuck it, I&#8217;m going to do this publishing thing my way.&#8221; But I did, and we went from food stamps to relative financial security in a couple of months. It was insane. But as bad as it was to be poor, what&#8217;s almost worse is not being poor, but remembering how easy it was to lose everything the last time. I&#8217;m constantly afraid that somehow, everyone will find out that I&#8217;m a fraud and not a real writer at all, and I&#8217;ll lose everything again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear that I won&#8217;t get to write all the books I want to write before I die<\/strong>. Does what it says on the tin. I have so many stories in my head, there is no possible way I could ever tell them all. It&#8217;s like my brain is a sinking ship, and I have to get as many passengers off of it as possible. I wish I could write every second of every day.<\/li>\n<li><b>Just generally being a malcontent<\/b>. I get angry about things, as you may or may not have noticed. And when I get angry, I write about the things that make me angry, and usually I can make one or two of you angry (either with me or at me), and it goes in a beautiful circle of blazing hostility at the world, ourselves, and other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much what motivates me. I know &#8220;championing social justice causes&#8221; probably should be on there, and I should be like, all noble about trying to make the world better for my fellow fat people, but I couldn&#8217;t take myself seriously if I were taking myself that seriously, and this blog is really only a thinly-veiled excuse for me to make dick jokes about pop culture, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;re reading this, I&#8217;m either recording a segment with NPR, nervous about recording the upcoming segment with NPR, or being super relieved that I&#8217;m done recording that segment with NPR. Let&#8217;s all cross our fingers that I don&#8217;t say something dumb, okay? I&#8217;ll ask them when it&#8217;s going to be on and let you all know. I&#8217;m going to be talking about &#8220;All About The Bass.&#8221; So it&#8217;s a pretty fair bet that today, abject terror is my motivator.<\/p>\n<p>Wanna see what other Wednesday writers get all motivated by (I&#8217;ve used variations of &#8220;motivate&#8221; so much in this post, I feel like it&#8217;s not even a real word anymore)? Check out their posts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"%20http:\/\/gwendolyncease.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/random-wednesday-blog-what-motivates-me.html  \">Gwendolyn Cease<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 <a href=\"%20http:\/\/wp.me\/p106Lt-dF\">Kellie St. James<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/bronwyngreenblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/what-motivates-me.html\">Bronwyn Green<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicajarman.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/wednesday-randomness-what-motivates-me.html\">Jessica Jarman<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kleighjones.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/wednesday-randomness-what-motivates-me.html\">Leigh Jones<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"%20http:\/\/krisnorris.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction.html\">Kris Norris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jenny,&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all probably not wondering, &#8220;what is it that motivates you to keep to your office hermitage, barely seeking the sunlight or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=7926\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Blogging: Motivation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\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:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}