{"id":2747,"date":"2010-05-16T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2010-05-16T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:28:26","slug":"writing-to-the-beat-of-a-different-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2010\/05\/writing-to-the-beat-of-a-different-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING: To The Beat of A Different Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">(<\/span>UPDATE: via <a href=\"http:\/\/just1m.blogspot.com\/\">Dorothee Lang<\/a> (Blue Print Review), this most interesting  echo of my own feelings: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storysouth.com\/fall2004\/shortshorts.html\">Jason  Sanford, in storySouth<\/a> &#8212; this may even call for another post.)<\/p>\n<p>Just remembered that May is Short Story Month (no, I don&#8217;t know who  started it) and since I made a conscious effort not to conform, I&#8217;m  thinking of writing a short story a day throughout June.<\/p>\n<p>This goes contradictory to my nature of editing and polishing (though  some of my best published stories are those written on the fly). Last  summer I wrote a story a day in hypertext for 100 days. While some are  really good, the majority are <em>eh <\/em>and have more value as a  learning of format and narrative than for actual story I think. I&#8217;m  still working on editing them and this is a lot more time and work than  I&#8217;d already put into them&#8211;probably an average of ten to twelve hours  per story&#8211;originally. Particularly now, when there are several places  on the hard drive and in different forms (Tinderbox, html) as well as  the online version to update if a change is made.<\/p>\n<p>So do I write my June away? Traditional or hypertext? Or should I  just play with clay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">(<\/span>UPDATE: via Dorothee Lang (Blue Print Review), this most interesting echo of my own feelings: Jason Sanford, in storySouth &#8212; this may even call for another post.) Just remembered that May is Short Story Month (no, I don&#8217;t know who started it) and since I made a conscious effort not to conform, I&#8217;m thinking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}