{"id":524,"date":"2012-10-05T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2012\/10\/05\/dawgs-wind-and-halloween\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:17:43","slug":"dawgs-wind-and-halloween-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2012\/10\/05\/dawgs-wind-and-halloween-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawgs, Wind and Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, so much has happened and yet nothing has happened at all (how’s that for passive voice?) – the different “muches” crashed into each other and created this post’s title in case it confused you. Hmm…without details, here’s what’s happening:<\/p>\n

I have a fast-food job (JDawgs<\/a> if you’ve ever heard of it) and other than that, I have “all the time in the world” to write. As in no classes, no obligations, nada… It’s kind of a long story how that happened, but ultimately it was my choice.<\/p>\n

I finished reading Patrick Rothfuss<\/a>‘s “The Name of the Wind<\/a>.” Can I say amazing? Genius? Mind shattered from awesomeness? I enjoy fantasy novels, but I must say Rothfuss’s ability to merge great writing and great storytelling make the novel one of a kind right on par with “The Lord of the Rings<\/a>.” Sure, you may think I exaggerate, but I honestly feel this way. Suffice it to say, I began reading book 2, “The Wise Man’s Fear<\/a>” already.<\/p>\n

October upon us, I’m considering a Halloween story this year. Many of my earliest (but not the very earliest) stories were school assignments to celebrate Halloween, and as a result I’ve always had a fascination for them. I just need a story idea…or maybe a Halloween character.<\/p>\n

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Haven’t heard back from Shadow Mountain yet. I’m not surprised – the book publishing world moves slower than the rest of the world and with good reason. This time next month I may have a book contract, a “please revise this again and resubmit” letter, or my first book publication rejection letter. Or I might not. Either way, I’m not worried.<\/p>\n

Well, I need to get some writing in or something. I’m working 8 1\/2 hours today at JDawgs and need to have some kind of energy\/excitement\/fun thoughts to carry me through the longer workday just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, so much has happened and yet nothing has happened at all (how’s that for passive voice?) – the different “muches” crashed into each other and created this post’s title in case it confused you. Hmm…without details, here’s what’s happening: I have a fast-food job (JDawgs if you’ve ever heard of it) and other than that, I have […]<\/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":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-update-on-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}