{"id":772,"date":"2012-12-18T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-12-18T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:24:07","slug":"need-to-write-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2012\/12\/18\/need-to-write-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to Write More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing once a month on this blog is a very bad idea. Not practicing a language is an extremely bad idea, especially when it&#8217;s the language that feeds me. Although I read in English all the time, never ever writing in the language makes me prone to forgetting my vocabulary or even how to structure sentences. I know this sounds as I were a beginner, but I&#8217;m detecting that something&#8217;s very wrong with the English compartment in my brain. The other day I told somebody I was working for, an Arabic-English bilingual, that I felt I had gaps in both Spanish and English. He told me that at last somebody described the way he felt.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish is okay right now because I write fairly often on my other blog. By the way, I feel so much better now that I took the conscious decision to stop forcing stories upon myself. Maybe it&#8217;s a bad decision, but I do feel better now acknowledging the fact that I don&#8217;t have stories to tell other than my own. Comics, on the other hand&#8230; I need to get over my fear of drawing. Rather than that, I need to get over my fear of beginning.<\/p>\n<p>So, where was I? Oh, right. I was so much more fluent when I wrote in English than now that I&#8217;m mostly a passive consumer of words. Yeah, I know, it doesn&#8217;t make sense if my job is to speak the language. But still, writing fixes words in my mind in a way that mere talking doesn&#8217;t. Or maybe it&#8217;s like the autowash cycle in the machine that we&#8217;re checking out at work\u2014the machine never stops working but everything becomes so much clearer after the washing&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing once a month on this blog is a very bad idea. Not practicing a language is an extremely bad idea, especially when it&#8217;s the language that feeds me. Although I read in English all the time, never ever writing in the language makes me prone to forgetting my vocabulary or even how to structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}