{"id":4521,"date":"2014-02-19T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:40:33","slug":"how-seinfeld-keeps-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/how-seinfeld-keeps-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Seinfeld keeps writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What he does is draws up a calendar of boxes, each box represents a day he has to write, once he writes a joke that day, he can put a cross through it, after a while his job becomes trying to extend that daisy chain of boxes because you don\u2019t want to break it.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s gamified his own writing! \u00a0By focusing on extending the chain, not the writing, he&#8217;s sidestepped the all too common writers block. \u00a0Nice hack.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reminded of this whilst reading Steal Like an Artist. \u00a0More on Seinfelds hack <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/281626\/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What he does is draws up a calendar of boxes, each box represents a day he has to write, once he writes a joke that day, he can put a cross through it, after a while his job becomes trying to extend that daisy chain of boxes because you don\u2019t want to break it. He\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[664,1393],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}