{"id":105,"date":"2026-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.agilethemes.com\/overtone\/?p=105"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:00:00","slug":"writing-in-the-margins","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/episodes\/writing-in-the-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in the margins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosa Lind wrote her first three novels between five and seven in the morning, before her shift at the library. We talk about protecting creative time, stopping mid-sentence and finishing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The five a.m. habit<\/li><li>Stopping mid-sentence on purpose<\/li><li>Why a finished bad draft beats a perfect first page<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finish badly. A finished bad draft can be fixed.<\/p>\n<cite>Rosa Lind<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mentioned in the show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">The Quiet Hours, by Rosa Lind<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Long Way Round is listener supported. If this episode meant something to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/members\">become a member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Rosa Lind wrote three books before breakfast. She shares the habit, the train she can\u2019t miss, and why you should finish badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_overtone_audio_url":"\/wp-content\/plugins\/overtone-podcast\/assets\/demo\/placeholder-silence.m4a","_overtone_audio_id":0,"_overtone_duration":"48:54","_overtone_file_size":212544,"_overtone_mime":"audio\/mp4","_overtone_episode":5,"_overtone_season":2,"_overtone_type":"full","_overtone_explicit":false,"_overtone_chapters":"0:00 Welcome\n7:13 The five a.m. habit\n25:20 Stopping mid-sentence\n41:10 Finishing things","_overtone_transcript":"[0:00] Maya: Welcome back to The Long Way Round. Rosa Lind wrote her first three novels before her day job began.\n[0:10] Rosa: Before the coffee kicked in, usually. Half of my best sentences were written by someone who wasn\u2019t fully awake.\n[7:13] Maya: Why the early morning? Plenty of people would choose the evening.\n[7:18] Rosa: By the evening, the day has already had its say. At five, nobody has asked anything of me yet. The page gets the first word.\n[25:20] Rosa: I treat it like a train I can\u2019t miss. And I stop mid-sentence, so tomorrow I know exactly where to begin.\n[41:10] Rosa: Finish badly. A finished bad draft can be fixed. A perfect first page cannot be published.","_overtone_video_url":"","footnotes":""},"guest":[6],"topic":[11],"class_list":["post-105","episode","type-episode","status-publish","hentry","guest-rosa-lind","topic-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episode"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"guest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}