PREPARE TO GET PROBED.<\/p>\n
Ha ha ha, no, no, silly, not like that<\/em>.<\/p>\n I mean, “Prepare to get probed rectally<\/em>.”<\/p>\n *checks notes*<\/p>\n Wait, I mean, “not<\/em> rectally.”<\/p>\n Sorry! Sorry. Always get that one wrong.<\/p>\n So, from time to time it’s a good idea to shove your own penmonkey dreams under the lens of the microscope, see how things are going for you. As such, it’s time for a report card if you’re willing.<\/p>\n The questions — and you can answer as many or as few of these as you care to — are:<\/p>\n How’s it going, writing-wise?<\/p>\n How goes progress on any current projects? Whatcha working on?<\/p>\n Any problems with said projects? Issues you’re having?<\/p>\n Anything I or the lovely community of terribleminds can help with?<\/p>\n (This is also a good time to ask for beta readers if you need ’em.)<\/p>\n Beyond individual projects, how’s the bigger picture looking?<\/p>\n What are your strengths as a writer and storyteller?<\/p>\n More importantly: what and where are your weaknesses?<\/p>\n So: there you go.<\/p>\n A few self-eval questions to get you talking.<\/p>\n I’ll hang up and wait for your answer.<\/p>\n CARRIER LOST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PREPARE TO GET PROBED. Ha ha ha, no, no, silly, not like that. I mean, “Prepare to get probed rectally.” *checks notes* Wait, I mean, “not rectally.” Sorry! Sorry. Always get that one wrong. So, from time to time it’s a good idea to shove your own penmonkey dreams under the lens of the microscope, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-15648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-writing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-44o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15653,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648\/revisions\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}