{"id":1752,"date":"2013-01-26T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2013-01-26T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:19:16","slug":"couldve-wouldve-shouldve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/couldve-wouldve-shouldve\/","title":{"rendered":"Could&#8217;ve, Would&#8217;ve, Should&#8217;ve"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Could&#8217;ve<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"> written this article myself. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3005011\/why-you-should-work-coffee-shop-even-when-you-have-office\">Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office.<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"> Every word of it is truth for me. And, isn&#8217;t it great when you find out it&#8217;s not just you? (By the way, I would never have expected to enjoy a business-focused magazine as much as I am Fast Company. What a great publication!)&nbsp;\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Would&#8217;ve<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"> profiled this woman myself if I had known about her work. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/26\/us\/a-nun-at-the-crossroads-of-faith-and-film.html?_r=1&amp;\">A Nun at the Crossroads of Faith and Film.<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"> (Darn it, I hate it when the New York Times gets there first.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Writer-at-Work.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Writer-at-Work.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Should&#8217;ve<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">. Well now, there&#8217;s a question to ponder. Over the course of a professional journey, the should-NOT-have&#8217;s have a way of presenting themselves pretty readily, but what about the should-haves?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few answers come straight to mind. I should&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taken more risks. I never took a creative risk that didn&#8217;t pay off. (And after all, what&#8217;s to lose? You&#8217;re the boss. If you don&#8217;t deem a piece publishable, you can always send yourself back to your desk and make yourself do it again.)<\/li>\n<li>Shared more first drafts. (More than that one time, I mean. Geez, Susan.)<\/li>\n<li>Allowed myself to write more like Anne Lamott.<\/li>\n<li>Trusted myself to write more first-person pieces, earlier in my career.<\/li>\n<li>Read more David Foster Wallace. Read more fine contemporary essayists in general. Read more Shakespeare, more often. Ditto for poetry.<\/li>\n<li>Started Fast Company myself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bigger questions demand serious thought, though. What articles should I have written? What stories should I have told? What could I do about that now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could&#8217;ve written this article myself. Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office. Every word of it is truth for me. And, isn&#8217;t it great when you find out it&#8217;s not just you? (By&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/couldve-wouldve-shouldve\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}