{"id":828,"date":"2009-06-24T00:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-06-24T00:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:34:16","slug":"twenty-percent-writers-of-the-future-and-the-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/twenty-percent-writers-of-the-future-and-the-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty percent, Writers of the Future, and the INTERN"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am now 20% finished with Ashes of the Starry Sea.<\/em> Huzzah! \u00a0The story is definitely picking up steam.<\/p>\n

In related news, my seven day totals has peaked higher than it’s been in the last two weeks, up above 17,500 words. \u00a0Inshallah, that number will rise to +24,000 befoore the end of the week.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, I’ve decided to recycle my 2009 Mayhew story for the Writers of the Future<\/a> contest this quarter. \u00a0I’ve got until July 1st to get it out, but I have a plan, and I don’t think it will require too much extra work. \u00a0That was the thing holding me back (since, really, it’s not a story, it’s just a scene), but now I’ve got something that I think has a chance of working.<\/p>\n

It’s funny how reading other people’s manuscripts motivates you to send your own stuff out. \u00a0I mean, reading the Leading Edge<\/a><\/em> slushpile, I said to myself “you know, that story you wrote two years ago could probably get a pass.” Lo and behold! \u00a0With Writers of the Future, it’s definitely worth a shot. \u00a0Definitely.<\/p>\n

Oh, and as I skimmed through Genesis Earth 2.0<\/em> today, the thought occured to me that I’ve written a kickass story here (pardon the language). \u00a0I mean, it’s far from perfect, and it’s not the best book ever written (not by a long shot), but it’s a lot more than a “stuff happens, the end” kind of story. \u00a0Maybe I’ll even see it in print someday. \u00a0And to think I almost trashed the project a year ago.<\/p>\n

As something totally unrelated to personal news at all, check out this awesome new blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The straight dope on publishing from publishing’s most fearsome figure\u2014THE INTERN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice tagline!<\/p>\n

As I read about the exploits of this publishing intern, I can’t help but think to myself, “hey, that could have been me.” Not quite sure how I feel about that, but I’m really glad to have all this time to write and work on my craft. \u00a0I definitely need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am now 20% finished with Ashes of the Starry Sea. Huzzah! \u00a0The story is definitely picking up steam. In related news, my seven day totals has peaked higher than it’s been in the last two weeks, up above 17,500 words. \u00a0Inshallah, that number will rise to +24,000 befoore the end of the week. In… Continue reading Twenty percent, Writers of the Future, and the INTERN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[164,147,248,234,186,119,210,4,599,247],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-contests","tag-momentum","tag-motivation","tag-publication-credits","tag-submitting","tag-summer-2009","tag-the-leading-edge","tag-the-lost-colony","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-writers-of-the-future","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}