{"id":1613,"date":"2008-04-12T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2008-04-12T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T09:47:08","slug":"on-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1613","title":{"rendered":"On writing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m currently six poems behind in the 2008 edition of <em>30,<\/em> my semi-annual &#8217;30 poems in 30 days&#8217; experiment for National Poetry Month.  Hopefully I can make up the difference this weekend, or as this week goes along; ironically, it&#8217;s not because I haven&#8217;t had the time to write that I&#8217;m behind so much as I&#8217;ve been writing other things.  This week I wrote two ~1800-word essays for the Convergence Culture Consortium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergenceculture.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/video_the_flickring_image.php\">one on the blogosphere&#8217;s reaction to Flickr Video and the logic behind niche web applications<\/a> and another, behind C3&#8217;s content firewall in the <i>C3 Weekly Update,<\/i> about HarperCollins&#8217; new publishing imprint that&#8217;s attempting to do away with the author advance.  Then, this morning, I woke up to an email from a mother on Facebook curious about what her son might expect from four years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenyon.edu\">Kenyon<\/a>, which resulted in a ~1200-word essay of a response.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also hard at work on some consulting projects which I&#8217;d write more about if they weren&#8217;t still in development, but suffice it to say that those projects are helping Laura and I to dig out from under some unexpected vet bills and theoretically helping to pay for us to go to Greece this summer &#150; I&#8217;ve had a paper accepted to the 2008 International Toy Researchers Association Conference, as have my friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderbarry.com\">Barry Kudrowitz<\/a> and Philip Tan.  There was a little while there this week where it looked like the trip might not happen for Laura and I, but now I&#8217;m feeling optimistic about it again.  Woo!  Greece!<br \/>\nSo, yes.  More details as they develop, and more poems as I get &#8217;em done.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m currently six poems behind in the 2008 edition of 30, my semi-annual &#8217;30 poems in 30 days&#8217; experiment for National Poetry Month. Hopefully I can make up the difference this weekend, or as this week goes along; ironically, it&#8217;s not because I haven&#8217;t had the time to write that I&#8217;m behind so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-q1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}