{"id":453,"date":"2010-03-31T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/?p=453"},"modified":"2010-03-31T01:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:22:00","slug":"creativity-and-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/creativity-and-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity and Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post I&#8217;ve been meaning to make for a while.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Three years ago, as I was about to thirty-four, I was in bad shape.  I don&#8217;t know what my weight was, exactly, but I&#8217;d say it was around 215 lbs.  Maybe more.  Add in a was working a job where I had regular access to donuts, and I was on a bad track.  And here&#8217;s the other thing: my writing was totally shot.  I would, on a regular basis, not even have the drive to open the file of what I was &#8220;working&#8221; on, let alone actually write.  For weeks at a time, I would write absolutely nothing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shortly after that, I got my act together.  Tomorrow I turn thirty-seven, and I can honestly say I&#8217;m probably in the best shape of my life.  I&#8217;m weighing 188, and far more of that is muscle than used to be.  I eat far less red meat, far more vegetables and fiber, and very few refined sugars.  Junk food is right out.  I spent the spring break vacation hiking in Big Bend.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And in these three years, I finished <i>Crown of Druthal<\/i>, which was the thing I had been working on, in some way or another, for years.  I wrote <i>Thorn of Dentonhill<\/i> and <i>Holver Alley Crew<\/i>, and outlined out further installments of both series.  <i>Maradaine Constabulary<\/i> is a work in progress.  <i>Vanguard<\/i> and <i>USS Banshee<\/i> both have strong outlines.  I have a piece in an upcoming Norton Anthology.  I&#8217;ve been invited to submit to another anthology.  Things are moving forward in the business of my writing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Are these two things connected?  I think so.  I feel better about myself, as well as having more energy and vitality, which all gets translated into creativity.  Plus, once you start to change your life, it&#8217;s easier to make all the rest of the dominoes fall.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post I&#8217;ve been meaning to make for a while. Three years ago, as I was about to thirty-four, I was in bad shape. I don&#8217;t know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-writing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}