{"id":261,"date":"2009-03-01T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-03-01T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:54:20","slug":"in-which-i-attempt-to-explain-myself-and-then-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/in-which-i-attempt-to-explain-myself-and-then-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I attempt to explain myself, and then give up."},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted anything in a month besides Twitter digests, and I think we all know those don’t count. I’m 35 responses behind, at least, not counting music.<\/p>\n

But I can explain all this away: I’ve been writing short stories for the past month. Mostly just one short story, actually.<\/p>\n

“But how can that be?” you say. “Shouldn’t you be able to write a short story in one or two sittings? How could it possibly take you a month to write 15-20 pages? That’s less than one page per day. Are you that lazy?”<\/p>\n

“Shut up,” I say. “Or I will drown you with tigers.”<\/p>\n

I did write some more poems<\/a>, so it wasn’t all mental thrashing, but still. A month per short story is silly and unprofessional. However: the deadline for that story is tomorrow, so here’s hoping I’ll be able to sort some of these posts out, and maybe respond to what I read more than once a month.<\/p>\n

In other news, I’m writing the next story with a pen, in a notebook, where there is no frickity-frackity internet. Because I have all the self-discipline and focus of a chicken pecking rock salt on the freeway.<\/p>\n

Also, I will work on my analogies. Because they are terrible. Like a… Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted anything in a month besides Twitter digests, and I think we all know those don’t count. I’m 35 responses behind, at least, not counting music. But I can explain all this away: I’ve been writing short stories for the past month. Mostly just one short story, actually. “But how can that be?” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[219,220,221,2545],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-excuses-for-poor-behaviour","tag-not-writing","tag-oh-no-present-tense-dialogue","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}