{"id":1880,"date":"2008-08-13T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:36","slug":"midweek-geekfes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"The Midweek Geekfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have probably heard by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2008\/07\/29\/isaac-asimovs-foundation-trilogy-headed-to-the-big-screen\/\" target= _blank>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <i>Foundation<\/i><\/a> series is coming to the big screen. And now I&#8217;m scared. <i>I, Robot<\/i> and <i>Bicentennial Man<\/i> did NOT go well, to my mind. Meanwhile, via Smart B&#8217;s, Trash B&#8217;s, tremendously successful SFF author <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendID=164952151&#038;blogID=423204224\" target= _blank>Lois McMasters Bujold<\/a> talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/lois-mcmaster-bujolds-denvention-3-speech-full-of-awesome\/\" target= _blank>genres as blood types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8221; In fact, I once fancied a metaphor of genres as blood types, in which mystery was the universal donor, equivalent to blood type O, and science fiction and fantasy the universal receivers, equivalent to type AB.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If young adult literature were a blood type, what type would it be? Are we also AB, a universal recipient? Hm. If we were a dog breed, though&#8230; what then?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, my inner geek reveled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/web_tech\/get_your_geek_on_91332.asp?c=rss\" target= _blank>Galleycat admitting<\/a> to a certain adolescent nerdiness. Why not check out your <a href=\"http:\/\/elfishgene.com\/index.html\" target= _blank>ELF GENE<\/a>, or check out your <a href=\"http:\/\/quiz.angiefox.com\/default.aspx\" target= _blanK>biker witch name?<\/a> No, really? Why not?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tossed my last WIP back onto the pile, and am plowing ahead on a long-delayed revision my agent just asked me about&#8230; oops. Back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have probably heard by now that Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation series is coming to the big screen. And now I&#8217;m scared. I,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}