{"id":530,"date":"2018-03-18T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=530"},"modified":"2018-03-18T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:38:24","slug":"procrastinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Procrastinating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m procrastinating writing. I’m cleaning out the litter boxes, picking up my office, staring at the cats…anything but working on the blank page of Grimaulkin Redeemed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wrote the exciting part that had been running around in my head for the better part of a week, and now there’s nothing after that. I have to write an hour-long conversation, which I suspect will be boring on the page, but I’m not sure what to do to make it exciting. So I’m staring at sleeping cats, hoping something comes to me.<\/p>\n

I purchased some Ernest Hemingway books for the 6 hour plane ride to San Jose in August, and I’m trying to refrain myself form reading them. That would probably help with the conversation I have to do. I’m doing research for the conversation, because Mike has to talk to an expert in something that I know very little about.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the short story is done, though the title is still in flux. Maybe “A Family Gathering”. That is the tie-in to Grimaulkin Redeemed<\/em>. Sort of. You’ll see.<\/p>\n

Well, the cat moved out of my office. Guess it’s time to get down to business.<\/p>\n

Maybe if I watch some Hulu…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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