{"id":512,"date":"2011-04-08T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2011\/04\/08\/rotten-eggs\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:17:24","slug":"rotten-eggs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2011\/04\/08\/rotten-eggs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotten Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well I\u2019m far due for another post. That\u2019s all I have to say about my great blogging.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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I just received in the mail a copy of Brewer\u2019s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 18th Edition<\/a>. I\u2019m looking forward to flipping through it. As of late (well, I\u2019ve always been this way, but more so recently) I\u2019ve taken up the hobby of collecting Wikipedia<\/a> articles on different mythology<\/a>, legend<\/a>s, fairy tale<\/a>s and lesser-known historical fact. Yes, one could argue that Wikipedia<\/a> is not always considered a great source for accurate information, but I believe it a decent starting place.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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But I\u2019ve dreamed ever since 2004 of owning a copy of Brewer\u2019s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable<\/a> and now I have one. I\u2019ll be able to consult that for all the historical fantasy that I might need or find interesting. And it\u2019s not too late to begin delving into such information because as soon as I finish writing my first series, I plan to delve into a much\u2026\u201clarger\u201d writing project that I intend to enrich with historical and mythological context (after all, the major idea behind that expected series is the battle between old and new).<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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Enough of Brewer\u2019s Dictionary<\/a>, however.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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On Tuesday of this week I finished reading J. M. Barrie<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPeter and Wendy<\/a>\u201d as well as a reread of Stephen King<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger<\/a>.\u201d I must say that Peter Pan in his original creation is a lot more\u2026arrogant than I expected. While Peter Pan is a great story, he\u2019s evolved over the decades into a much more child-friendly character than his originations. On the other hand, The Gunslinger<\/a> is still a great book \u2013 can\u2019t say much more than that because I\u2019m dying to read the entire Dark Tower<\/a> series much more than any of the individual books in the series.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m hitting some snags with my writing. Okay, it\u2019s more like I remained stuck in a snag last week but have begun to escape during this week. My problem is that I appear to be (not yet verified by me yet) more of a planner than a \u201csee where it goes\u201d type of writer but I don\u2019t know how to plan. So my typical storytelling schedule goes something like this: I get on a large writing spree only to find myself then stuck in a scene that I\u2019m not familiar with. Then I stew around for a few days or a week trying to figure out what happens next. That doesn\u2019t often work but guilt begins to factor in \u2013 guilt that I\u2019m not working on my story. I try to plow on and eventually do find my way through the scene, finding myself once more on a writing spree until I hit the next unknown scene. Some would call this writer\u2019s block. I just call it a failure to know my own story.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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Oh. On a different note, I purchased Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/a> in Spanish just yesterday and am enjoying that book once more. I\u2019d like to read the entire Harry Potter<\/a> series in Spanish (I\u2019ve read it numerous times in English) but I\u2019m kind of tired of my attempts at starting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone<\/a> \u2013 I know that book too<\/i> well.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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You might be bored out of your misery or wondering why I think I can blog and keep my posts interesting. Well, me too, but practice does help\u2026so give me a chance before tossing me out with the rotten eggs \u2013 yes, that\u2019s the whole reason for the title, so forgive me if you expected to learn about rotten eggs. I’ll make a list for myself of things I can\/should write about so that maybe someone somewhere can get something somehow out of me.<\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I\u2019m far due for another post. That\u2019s all I have to say about my great blogging. I just received in the mail a copy of Brewer\u2019s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 18th Edition. I\u2019m looking forward to flipping through it. As of late (well, I\u2019ve always been this way, but more so recently) I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}