{"id":7100,"date":"2017-09-08T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2017-09-08T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:38:52","slug":"year-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2017\/09\/08\/year-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8-Ball\"Eight years ago today, I posted the first entry on The Juggling Writer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I still believe in the points mentioned in that entry; in fact, I will go into my day job today and mention a juggling analogy as I discuss how I’ve taken on a laid-off writer’s duties in the past week. (The point: that I’ll get there, but just as I was first juggling five things, it all seemed a bit overwhelming.)<\/p>\n

In a weird way, layoffs where I work factor in with the goals of this blog. Things happen. I have had plans with the current novel-in-progress, and I don’t see those plans changing, but I might<\/em> come in a few weeks late on my goal of having a readable draft this month because the thing that pays the bills needs me more than usual right now. And because I like the people I work with…sure…I’ll put in some overtime.<\/p>\n

Still…<\/h2>\n

I do<\/em> hope that something more happens with my writing in the next two years, so I’m not posting on the 10th<\/em> anniversary of the blog that I’m still chugging along and hoping. Not that it’s likely I’ll ever make a full-time living writing fiction…but someone<\/em> ends up breaking through every so often…<\/p>\n

So I keep that hope.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, knowing a handful of people read all this regularly means a lot to me. Knowing that even more people occasionally<\/em> read it — and even more<\/em>, still — stumble upon it matters. Because the goal of the blog was about working, writing, and living life, I’m good where I am…still working, writing, and living.<\/p>\n

Things are largely in balance right now, despite layoffs at work — and rumors of more coming. I’ve been laid off two times since starting this blog, and I jumped to my current job in that time as well. Three big changes in eight years.<\/p>\n

While I hope another big change isn’t looming (unless it’s writing related)…I know whatever comes my way will not sour my next year of writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight years ago today, I posted the first entry on The Juggling Writer. I still believe in the points mentioned in that entry; in fact, I will go into my day job today and mention a juggling analogy as I discuss how I’ve taken on a laid-off writer’s duties in the past week. (The point: […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100"}],"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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7106,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}