{"id":12105,"date":"2014-01-19T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/19\/c-p-q\/"},"modified":"2014-01-19T02:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:24:00","slug":"c-p-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/19\/c-p-q\/","title":{"rendered":"C, P, Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C: Who is your favorite character of your own?\u00a0 Who is your favorite character created by somebody else?\u00a0 Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>jeebles, I have so many favorites now\u2026 my favorite character of all is probably Monsoon, big Mouran warrioress who tamed a fearsome firecat and takes no shit from anyone. I have many heart-characters from others\u2019 work, but the three I gotta say I really adore are Hazel from\u00a0<em>Watership Down,<\/em>\u00a0Ratha from Clare Bell\u2019s books,and Ender from\u00a0<em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em> (yes, I know, fuck that guy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>P: What are your goals for things to happen to your writing? (Getting published, getting a good review, having a fandom, etc)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to make a modest (to spectacular, wouldn\u2019t turn down a lavish writerlife) income off my book sales, so I can eventually do that full-time. I\u2019m under no delusions that I have a good shot at writing my way out of ever working again, so I\u2019d like to make enough that I can do the full-time thing comfortably. I\u2019d also like Makani to draw fan art of something I write. anything, really. just proving that we share a sense of humor. XD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How do you get through writer\u2019s block?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>honestly? having at least 3-4 different types of projects going on at once. I haven\u2019t had many days in recent memory where I was completely blocked on everything, because I managed to maintain enough ways to change it up that my creativity rarely clogged up altogether. that\u2019s not to say I haven\u2019t been blocked on individual projects, and usually it means I need to do something different but that isn\u2019t writing-related at all. most recently it was call a friend. before that it was get out of the reading rut I was in. meanwhile, I kept improving my cooking skills, or my pole dancing, or a different phase of a writing project (I\u2019m often blocked on research but not prose, or vice versa). kept me from going nuts and feeling like I didn\u2019t accomplish\u00a0<em>anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C: Who is your favorite character of your own?\u00a0 Who is your favorite character created by somebody else?\u00a0 Why? jeebles, I have so many favorites now\u2026 my favorite character of all is probably Monsoon, big Mouran warrioress who tamed a fearsome firecat and takes no shit from anyone. I have many heart-characters from others\u2019 work, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/19\/c-p-q\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;C, P, Q&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5247,1517,939],"class_list":["post-12105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ask-box","tag-mls-classics","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}