{"id":8164,"date":"2011-03-15T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2011-03-16T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:38:20","slug":"the-push-like-youre-pooping-guest-blog-a-palooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/03\/15\/the-push-like-youre-pooping-guest-blog-a-palooza\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Push Like You’re Pooping” Guest Blog-A-Palooza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, it’s like this: I’m writing that book above for Abaddon Press. “A vampire in zombieland,” you might call it. It is going along according to plan and according to schedule. Hey! Huzzah! Woo! *does an embarrassing dance that causes all who gaze upon it to throw putrid food products at my gamboling choromaniac body*<\/p>\n

Still, though. Book’s due mid-April, and I want to leave myself some room to breathe — a little cushion for my pushin’ <\/em>— at the fore of that month just to let me give the book a final kick in the ass and one solid edit before sending it off. And blogging, while fun and wonderful, saps some of the writing time out of my week. I generally write about 4-5k per day, but that includes a blog post in that mix. If I eradicate the blog post — even for one week — then a little more of that sweet sweet<\/em> word count comes flowing back into the book.<\/p>\n

But, I don’t want to take time off from this space, either. I’ve been diligently keeping this site updated every day, and I’d like to maintain the illusion, however precious, that such effort matters. (Don’t spoil it by telling me it doesn’t matter and I’m allowed to take a week off. Imagine my ego as a crinkly glass snowflake beneath your boot which is poised indelicately above it.)<\/em><\/p>\n

So, that means:<\/p>\n

Guest blog time again!<\/p>\n

I want to solicit you, my crazy-ass ever-awesome readers, to contribute some blog content for the week of April 4th (Monday) to April 8th (Friday). That means I need five blog posts from five different peeps.<\/p>\n

Interested?<\/p>\n

Okay, here’s the deal.<\/p>\n

I can’t pay you in money. I can, however, pay in sexual favors. … uhh. I mean, in reciprocal blog posts. You write me a post, I can contribute a post to your blog in the near-future. I don’t believe that “exposure” is an entirely meaningful metric, but these days, this site does get a fair number of looky-loos (this month, averaging ~5,000 per day). Which means you can and should pimp and\/or cross-post to your own blog, and if you also have a book or a game or some Etsy store selling alpaca-yarn cock-sweaters to pimp, hey, pimp it good. In fact, if you have a book out or something and want to write a post about how you wrote that book and why people should buy it, that’ll totally work as a blog idea. Throw it into the mix!<\/p>\n

If you want in, hit the comments below and throw your hat into the ring with your topic and, if possible, a brief description of the post. I’ll pick the five posters tomorrow morning (Wednesday 3\/16) and will list them here. Then I’ll need the posts in my inbox (chuckwendig [at] terribleminds [dot] com) by Friday, April 1st. Er, no, that’s not an April Fool’s Joke. Posts should be somewhere between 500 – 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Posts can be on any topic near and dear to you. Topics near and dear to terribleminds are writing, games, food, and what-not, but you are by no means limited to what I would talk about.<\/p>\n

You are free to be as mouthy and profane as you like.<\/p>\n

So, if you’re in — hey, I appreciate it. Hit the comments below. I can only pick five, really, but don’t worry, I’ll probably need to do this again once the Tiny Human Hurricane is born in June, upending all aspects of my life, throwing them around the room like a goddamn poltergeist.<\/p>\n

Again, my sexual favors<\/del> thanks.<\/p>\n

EDIT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

THE FIGHTERS FOR THUNDERDOME — er, I mean, the guest-blog-a-palooza — HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.<\/em><\/p>\n

*banging of a drum which are actually the skulls of fallen bloggers*<\/em><\/p>\n

Marko Kloos: Writing While Parenting Small Chilluns<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

James Melzer: Muse Whore!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rick Carroll: The Box<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan O\u2019Shea: Doctor Dan\u2019s Parenting Advice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee Robson: Writerly Egos<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Blackmoore: Pushing Boundaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fred Hicks: In Which Fred Answers A Question Of His Choice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Austin Wulf: The DIY Writer Punk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lisa Killian: Voice Before Quota<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Karina Cooper: How Not To Be A Dickface While Writing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There you go.<\/em><\/p>\n

You’ll note some redundancies — these are on-purpose as I kind of want to see certain topics handled from different viewpoints.<\/em><\/p>\n

I will say very clearly that this was a stupidly difficult choice because, hot damn you all brought your A-game. These were just the ones I responded to personally. I mean, after all, this blog is all about me, for I am a solipsistic cock-waffle.<\/em><\/p>\n

You will note that I have chosen 10 instead of five. Five will go up that week, and the other five will go up either the following week (if I still need the time to polish the ‘script) or during the Birth of Der Wendigspawn, which will be late May\/early June.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you all for throwing your hats in the ring.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next time I do this, I may take @Amy’s idea and choose a single topic and five folks who will talk about said topic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to take time off from this space. I’ve been diligently keeping this site updated every day, and I’d like to maintain the illusion, however precious, that such effort matters. So, that means, while I finish up DOUBLE DEAD…. it’s Guest blog time again!<\/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":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-8164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-terribleminds","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-27G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","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=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}