{"id":1741,"date":"2010-09-08T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2010-09-16T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:14:08","slug":"year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/09\/08\/year-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Year One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Colorful ribbons.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/ribbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"386\" \/>This is the 130th Juggling Writer post.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to the first Juggling Writer post: How to Juggle.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/08\/how-to-juggle\/\">This was the first post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>I started <em>The Juggling Writer<\/em> to force myself to always have writing on my mind. Between blogging about writing and working on writing, I hoped to bring back a feeling I lost when I began putting more effort into my day job at the time than I did into writing and life.<\/p>\n<p>When I started writing seriously when I was 20, it&#8217;s all I thought about. This last year, thanks in part to this blog, I found that feeling again. Instead of leaving things on the ground for later, <a title=\"Link to a Juggling Writer article about dropping things.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/30\/dropping-things\/\">I picked things up<\/a> and got back to being busy.<\/p>\n<p>This last year has been my best year of writing in 21 years. Not only did I break the 100 posts goal I gave myself for the blog, I finished my third novel, went to a writer&#8217;s conference, and laid the foundation for some other writing-related things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>So what do I have planned for the next year?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, more articles about writing&#8211;but I also plan to start podcasting fiction (for a sneak peek, <a title=\"Link to a podcast idea I pitched to my writing group--a short story about a dog that eats everything.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/JPSEp1Gutterball.mp3\">go here<\/a>), and at least a monthly Juggling Writer podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in there, I&#8217;m sure, I&#8217;ll start my next novel.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s anything you&#8217;d like to see covered on <em>The Juggling Writer<\/em>, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>When I started <em>The Juggling Writer<\/em>, I hoped it would help me.<\/p>\n<p>And it did.<\/p>\n<p>But I really hoped it would help others, even if only a few people read the blog.<\/p>\n<p>To everybody who reads and replies: thank you&#8211;I hope I&#8217;ve helped you in some way this past year.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this blog, I hope you&#8217;ll tell others about it, but just knowing that people are out there reading what I&#8217;m sharing makes a year of this more than worth it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 130th Juggling Writer post. This was the first post. One year ago&#8230; Today&#8230; *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * I started The Juggling Writer to force myself to always have writing on my mind. 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