{"id":148,"date":"2015-01-16T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-01-16T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:15:16","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing what an extension cord can do for your life.<\/p>\n<p>My bed is on the opposite side of the room where the electric plug is. \u00a0The light I have in the room doesn&#8217;t light up near my bed. \u00a0So you would put a light near the bed, right?<\/p>\n<p>Except there&#8217;s no plug. \u00a0Well, now, with an extension cord, there is! \u00a0Let there be light to read by!<\/p>\n<p>So now I don&#8217;t have to rely on Kindle to read the books I have. \u00a0And boy, do I have a ton.<\/p>\n<p>For fiction\u00a0this time around, I am reading <em>Infinity<\/em>, by Sherilyn Kenyon. \u00a0It&#8217;s kind of like my book, but my main character&#8217;s gay. \u00a0And my book is told from a first person, not third person limited. \u00a0My character also is the victim, \u00a0not the bully. \u00a0Okay, so it&#8217;s not like my book.<\/p>\n<p>For writing, I am reading a book about shame, about how it&#8217;s different from guilt. \u00a0I am changing the end of my book, because guilt and remorse are things that Grim does not feel toward the end of the book. \u00a0He&#8217;s changed &#8211; from the bullied to the bully. \u00a0And bullies don&#8217;t feel shame, guilt, or remorse about what they do to people.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that unhappy ending sells is another story. \u00a0I have an agent I&#8217;m going to send a query letter to. \u00a0At the moment, I&#8217;m polishing up the query and plan on sending it out as soon as it&#8217;s critiqued. \u00a0Which hopefully will be next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing what an extension cord can do for your life. My bed is on the opposite side of the room where the electric plug is. \u00a0The light I have in the room doesn&#8217;t light up near my bed. \u00a0So you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}