{"id":2433,"date":"2010-12-22T00:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2010-12-22T00:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:37:01","slug":"cartoon-neil-gaiman-wants-you-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/12\/22\/cartoon-neil-gaiman-wants-you-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Neil Gaiman Wants You To Write!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"It was 85 degrees in North Texas today...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/temperature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>I haven&#8217;t shouted it from the rooftops, but I&#8217;m shooting for a post a day this December.<\/p>\n<p>No real reason, other than it seemed like a cool thing to do at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, I&#8217;ve been busy. One of the reasons I don&#8217;t normally post every day is I&#8217;m not a fan of blogs that post for the sake of posting.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those kinds of posts&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Busy Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a blast running around with my wife today. Aside from some job\/work stuff, I&#8217;ve slacked off!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve shopped, I&#8217;ve run errands, and while I&#8217;m not a fan of 85-degree weather on the first day of winter, I loved being out today!<\/p>\n<p>But none of this is writing related. This post, so far, is the result of a martini:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"An empty martini glass.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/martiniglass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But to make this a writing entry, I offer this&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Arthur<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My wife grew up with <a title=\"Link to PBS's Arthur.\" href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/arthur\/\">Arthur the Aardvark<\/a>\/Armadillo&#8230;whatever the hell he is! (I&#8217;m going with aardvark, but living in Texas &#8212; I&#8217;m partial to armadillos.) She loved the books as a kid, and she likes the show as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago, Neil Gaiman appeared on the show.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some good writing advice, here&#8230;so there&#8217;s my writing entry for the day!<\/p>\n<p>(I promise a better entry tomorrow, not influenced by a martini. (Yes, despite being built like a defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears (and a writer), it doesn&#8217;t take more than a drink or two to make me all goofy!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Cartoon Neil Gaiman&#8217;s writing advice:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"475\" height=\"381\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pEKheZs2dkg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"475\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pEKheZs2dkg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t shouted it from the rooftops, but I&#8217;m shooting for a post a day this December. 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One of the reasons I don&#8217;t normally post every day is I&#8217;m not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[29,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}