{"id":574,"date":"2010-07-12T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-07-12T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:51:24","slug":"a-star-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"A Star for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/34134029\/Wolf-s-Passage-Chapter-1\">a chapter of a novel-in-progress<\/a> to Scribd and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=562\">embedded the Scribd document into a blog post<\/a> here.  I then proceeded to express my deep embarrassment over this fact.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a grad school you see where people learn how to be real writers.  Nothing about the story I&#8217;ve been working on qualifies as real writing according to my schooling.  It&#8217;s a fantasy novel.  It&#8217;s escapism.  It&#8217;s an embarrassment to the word writer and to the entire concept of &#8220;Center for Writers alum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a featured document on Scribd today.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Weaver would have tossed me out of class for this, but Gordon Weaver apparently doesn&#8217;t pick featured stories on Scribd.<\/p>\n<p>Still, much to his embarrassment he taught me everything I&#8217;ll ever know about creating the kind of voice in writing that makes the idle escapism readers of the world want to engage.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Gord.  This one&#8217;s for you.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the whole world will likely forget I ever wrote a word, but today my story has been opened at least 300 times so far on Scribd.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Take that, weird leftover grad school shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I posted a chapter of a novel-in-progress to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}