{"id":1349,"date":"2015-02-12T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T09:29:34","slug":"2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything on\u00a0this blog for more than a year. \u00a0Lack of time? Lack of inspiration? Yes. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Probably excuses too.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not\u00a0to have the right words.<\/p>\n<p>It takes courage to write. I admire a lot of writers and their courage. Their courage to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show up<\/a> every time and start writing. It is not always easy to hit the publish button. You need to be ready to &#8220;own&#8221; your piece.<\/p>\n<p>But if you start <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/comparisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comparing yourself<\/a> to other writers, you never write.<\/p>\n<p>This has to do with ego. With the image you have built of yourself &#8212; you don&#8217;t want to break this perfect image because that&#8217;s the image you project onto others too. I&#8217;ve read\u00a0quite a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/leostartsup.com\/2014\/12\/ego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ego<\/a> this year. More on this later.<\/p>\n<p>What if we stopped caring\u00a0and just started writing? Just to share. Share what we saw, read, what moved us.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will have an impact. Maybe not. So what? What&#8217;s the point? Are you writing for an audience or for yourself? That&#8217;s always the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@PaulJun_\/dont-write-for-others-write-for-yourself-cf9e338a0977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to write more this year &#8211; for myself. We\u00a0don&#8217;t write enough. We self-censor (yes, even on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/04\/71-of-facebook-users-engage-in-self-censorship\/274982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to some of my really good <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinstraszburger.com\/2015-i-go-back-to-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friends<\/a> who started writing again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Time for new beginnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything on\u00a0this blog for more than a year. \u00a0Lack of time? Lack of inspiration?\u00a0Yes.\u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}