{"id":86,"date":"2011-08-13T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T23:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/13\/journal-002\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:42","slug":"journal-002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/journal-002\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much stuff to do, but I can&#8217;t seem to keep myself from being distracted.<\/p>\n<p> In point of fact, I just wasted an inordinate amount of time reading a Naruto fanfic. Why, you ask? Because it was really, really good. So good that I&#8217;m honestly considering asking the author of it if they want to work on a project with me.<\/p>\n<p> I don&#8217;t know how I would do with a co-author, but I&#8217;m willing to try something like that and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much stuff to do, but I can&#8217;t seem to keep myself from being distracted. In point of fact, I just wasted an inordinate amount of time reading a Naruto fanfic. Why, you ask? Because it was really, really good. So good that I&#8217;m honestly considering asking the author of it if they&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/journal-002\/\" title=\"Journal 002\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal 002<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[419],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-journal-2","tag-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/journal-003\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":0},"title":"Journal 003","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Working on the finally edits of \"Pulse of the City\" and \"Heroes & Villains: The Wedding.\" It's taken me a lot longer than expected. I mean, sure I've been distracted a lot by things happening on the internet, but there's other real life things that keep getting in the way.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":79,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/journal-001\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":1},"title":"Journal 001","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's been a somewhat trying day. I have been attempting to finish up the last edits for \"Pulse of the City\" so I can finally publish it, so of course today was the day when the Kids didn't want to offer me any peace at all. 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No, honestly he's kind of spooked me a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journal","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/journal-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":143,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/show-dont-tell\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":3},"title":"Show, Don&#8217;t Tell","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a real problem with \"show, don't tell\" when writing. I realize I do it, so I try to stop myself, but sometimes it just kind of gets away from me. I blame Joss Whedon and what I think might have been the \"Earshot\" episode. 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