{"id":9476,"date":"2011-06-23T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2011-06-22T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T01:26:53","slug":"what-ails-you-penmonkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/06\/23\/what-ails-you-penmonkey\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ails You, Penmonkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, as a head’s up: I triumphantly declared Thursdays to be reserved for guest posts and interviews, and you’ll realize that, erm, this<\/em> isn’t that<\/em>. I’ve got some good guest posts and have some incoming interviews (and have to send more out — be advised that this baby we have is some kind of goddamnable time vampire<\/em> the way he eats hours of our lives), so those will come.<\/p>\n

But — but! — for those weeks when I don’t have something in the pipeline, I figure I’ll bounce the ball into your court. Ask you a question. See what you got going on<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Today’s question is about: you and your writing.<\/p>\n

In case you’ve been locked in a steamer trunk deep down in the darkest cavern, here at terribleminds<\/strong> I talk a lot about writing and writers, and I like to think<\/em> I’m talking about stuff people find useful, but fact is, I never really know. This is one way for me to know. So, I ask you here: tell me about your current projects and, specifically, any problems you’re having as a writer. Anything at all. Babble away. Read other comments, too — maybe what one person considers a problem is something you’ve already figured out. Help each other. And this helps me, too — it lets me know how to gear future writing posts.<\/p>\n

Sit on my lap. Tug on my wizened beard.<\/p>\n

And tell Old Man Wendig your problems.<\/p>\n

… okay, that sounds weird.<\/p>\n

BUT I LIKE IT WEIRD.<\/p>\n

Ahem. Anyway. You know the drill.<\/p>\n

You. Comments. Go. Deposit your think juice in my blog box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I ask you here: tell me about your current projects and, specifically, any problems you’re having as a writer. Anything at all. Babble away. Read other comments, too — maybe what one person considers a problem is something you’ve already figured out. Help each other. And this helps me, too — it lets me know how to gear future writing posts.<\/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-9476","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-2sQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","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=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9480,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}