{"id":564,"date":"2018-05-20T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=564"},"modified":"2018-05-20T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:18:54","slug":"audiobook-more-books-poetry-maybe-war-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook! More books! Poetry! Maybe War Mage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;ve had two cups of tea this morning already so I&#8217;m raring to go!<\/p>\n<p>I received the first eight chapters of Grimaulkin in audiobook form. Despite my friend saying &#8220;He sounds like a computer&#8221; (I told her &#8220;You haven&#8217;t heard the Lore podcast&#8221;) I think it&#8217;s awesome. The point is, she laughed in all the right places, lpointed out things that she wasn&#8217;t clear about (though it was because either the GPS voice cut in or she wasn&#8217;t paying attention). She&#8217;s not an audiobook listener, either. I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;ll ever read it. It&#8217;s okay&#8230;it&#8217;s not her style.<\/p>\n<p>Went to my first poetry open mic last night and it was fun. I&#8217;m going to another one on the 31st, and I will be the featured author on June 28. I&#8217;ll be there with my books, and I&#8217;ll read &#8220;The Joint&#8221;. Meanwhile, my poetry was so well-received that I might write some more poems for open mic nights.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been filling out the trusty outline for <em>War Mage<\/em>, and although I&#8217;ve got the story lined up, the actual draft is horrible and short. I feel like I&#8217;m writing jigsaw puzzle pieces, and at some point they will fit together. This, like poetry, is a new method of writing for me. It&#8217;s like wearing loud prints when all you&#8217;re used to wearing is block colors. It&#8217;s a weird feeling; you think everyone&#8217;s staring at you and judging you based on what you&#8217;ve always worn. And now you&#8217;re daring something new? It blows people&#8217;s minds, not to mention your own. But you get used to it, and so do others, and eventually it may become, if not the norm, then at least accepted.<\/p>\n<p>In between my &#8220;homework&#8221; (my personal enrichment) I plan and write <em>War Mage<\/em>. Some days it&#8217;s a scene, other days it&#8217;s a few words. But a little bit every day is better than nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;ve had two cups of tea this morning already so I&#8217;m raring to go! I received the first eight chapters of Grimaulkin in audiobook form. Despite my friend saying &#8220;He sounds like a computer&#8221; (I told her &#8220;You haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=564\">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":[12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grimaulkin","category-war-mage","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}