{"id":1752,"date":"2008-11-14T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:13","slug":"toon-thursday-that-elusive-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: That Elusive Spark&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SRzbAa5wnQI\/AAAAAAAABNU\/HcizhhKcVxU\/s1600-h\/Cartoon-DayInLife4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Cartoon-DayInLife4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268326464384703746\" \/><\/a><br \/>Well, we are officially about 2 weeks into National Novel Writing Month and I&#8217;m a) woefully behind, and b) embarrassed at the poor-quality drivel that has issued forth from my keyboard. I can already tell that, once the month is over, I&#8217;m going to have to valiantly rescue my poor characters&#8211;whom I do quite like&#8211;from the garbled excuse for a plot and setting I&#8217;ve inflicted upon them. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>OK, a couple of links for you. Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersmarket.com\">WritersMarket.com<\/a> newsletter, I heard about an upcoming new site that will be launching this month called <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicnovelreporter.com\/content\/default.asp\">Graphic Novel Reporter<\/a>, all about graphic novels and manga for kids, teens, and adults, brought to you by the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookreporter.com\">BookReporter.com<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already signed up for their e-newsletter, and look forward to seeing the site!<\/p>\n<p>From Susan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardswireless.blogspot.com\">Wizards Wireless<\/a>, I found out about Fuse #8&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/blog\/1790000379\/post\/1970036197.html\">post about a Children&#8217;s Inauguration<\/a> to take place alongside the grown-up presidential inauguration in January. Says Betsy: &#8220;You would pair it alongside that of the adult persuasion and it could be a great way to promote reading, programs that support literacy, and other topics near and dear to our hearts.&#8221; Sounds good to me. I thought I&#8217;d officially mention that here, since for some reason SLJ isn&#8217;t letting me leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss a really interesting new feature over at Children&#8217;s Book Insider&#8211;a YouTube video series called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.write4kids.com\/blog\/\">Children&#8217;s Lit Blog Posts of the Day<\/a>, spotlighting interesting blog posts from around the kidlitosphere. It&#8217;s sort of surreal to be watching a video about blog posts that has in turn been posted on a blog, but it&#8217;s also a cool way of getting the word out.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, along with a host of other great sites including <a href=\"http:\/\/guyslitwire.blogspot.com\">Guys Lit Wire<\/a> we got a totally sweet plug from L<a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/\">ittle Willow<\/a> over on <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/11\/bookish-sites-to-see\/\">SparkLife<\/a> in her post about Bookish Sites to See&#8211;and Toon Thursday even got its own mention. Woo hoo!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are officially about 2 weeks into National Novel Writing Month and I&#8217;m a) woefully behind, and b) embarrassed at the poor-quality drivel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,59,77,10,73,52],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-comix","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}