{"id":1416,"date":"2014-12-09T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:55:49","slug":"a-wall-of-cold-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"A Wall of Cold Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>Yesterday I&#8217;d hit a wall in my writing, as I tried to push my NaNoWriMo novel forward. But it was awful. Sometimes I think bringing forth a novel is a lot like childbirth. Painful, a total body experience, a lot of work, and quite as much a spiritual effort as a physical and mental one. Labor. And sometimes there&#8217;s a mixture of gasping and prayer involved.<\/p>\n<p>And yesterday was no exception. Finally, I resorted to breaking out my post-Halloween-stash of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalmills.com\/en\/Brands\/Cereals\/Monsters.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">BooBerry cereal<\/a>. When I was in Walmart one day, I noticed the price on the family size boxes of all the monster cereals had temporarily gone down from $3.48 a box to just $1.00. Guess who bought TEN boxes. Okay, maybe it was eleven. And they&#8217;re mostly gone now. Including the box I opened yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I am not proud.<\/p>\n<p>And my tongue might be permanently blue.<\/p>\n<p>But then I asked the &#8220;People of Facebook&#8221; for a bit of feedback, this time about paintings and what art they knew of that was instantly recognizable. Their responses, which related directly to some of the blocks I was facing in my book, went straight to the heart of my problem and broke the wall in pieces. My fears and worries about the direction I&#8217;d chosen dissipated and this morning I was off to the races again. Another few thousand words onto the page (after deleting about that many or more).<\/p>\n<p>A hallelujah moment&#8211;one to be celebrated with the remainder of the box of BooBerry.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, friends. It&#8217;s nice to know that people have my back.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;a few more words on the page before my kids get home from school.<\/p>\n\n      <div data-chorus-discovery data-url=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=1416\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I&#8217;d hit a wall in my writing, as I tried to push my NaNoWriMo novel forward. But it was awful. Sometimes I think bringing forth a novel is a lot like childbirth. Painful, a total body experience, a lot of work, and quite as much a spiritual effort as a physical and mental one. 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