{"id":355,"date":"2012-06-02T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=355"},"modified":"2012-06-02T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:19:47","slug":"motivational-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/motivational-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Occasionally I wonder about the things that serve to motivate, and those that have the opposite effect.\u00a0 Pressure is one to these things.\u00a0 With me, a little pressure is a motivator, a lot\u2026 is not.\u00a0 Likewise for\u00a0 tasks, a few tasks are a good thing, but stack too many and none of them get done.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read many of my words you\u2019ll realize that this is really a form of apology.\u00a0 I tried hard to have the second novel in the Malmaxa series \u2013 <strong><em>The Pilgrimage<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 ready for release last weekend.\u00a0 Real Life jumped on that dream, squashing it beneath the burden of 17 hours of unanticipated overtime.\u00a0 Then exhaustion took over and kicked me while I was down (I\u2019m simply not as resilient as I was in my long lost youth).\u00a0 By Monday I was back on track, doing my usual couple of hours work on the novel every night \u2013 that is, on the nights I didn\u2019t just collapse into bed.\u00a0 By this Saturday evening I had made up about six of the 17 hours I lost.<\/p>\n<p>Which leaves me in the unenviable position of still having eleven hours work before I am reasonably happy with its state.\u00a0 For some this might be a motivator, the final stretch, the last leg, and any number of other phrases.\u00a0 Yet for me\u2026 it really isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Reluctance to relinquish my creation into the harsh light of critical eyes is building.\u00a0 With that reluctance came a thought, and a frantic hand grasping at the straw of reprieve. \u00a0The first novel in the series was released on June the 6<sup>th<\/sup>, last year. \u00a0That date meant something in the context of Malmaxa (no, it has nothing to do with 666\u00a0\u2013 that would be way too obvious), on reflection 6\/6\/12 is coming so soon that rushing <em><strong>The Pilgrimage<\/strong><\/em> simply doesn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 So\u2026 looks like it will be \u201csent to the presses\u201d of virtual eBookhood on June 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2012.\u00a0 I hope it is worth the wait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I wonder about the things that serve to motivate, and those that have the opposite effect.\u00a0 Pressure is one to these things.\u00a0 With me, a little pressure is a motivator, a lot\u2026 is not.\u00a0 Likewise for\u00a0 tasks, a few tasks are a good thing, but stack too many and none of them get done. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-malmaxa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}