{"id":1886,"date":"2008-08-08T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:35","slug":"toon-thursday-immature-artists-imitate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Immature Artists Imitate; Mature Artists Steal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just say this one was &#8220;inspired by&#8221; Tuesday&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/joys-of-revision-fairytale-edition_05.html\">The Joys of Revision, Fairytale Edition<\/a>.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SJumvb8Rx4I\/AAAAAAAAAro\/XQvnsKJcrVw\/s1600-h\/BogusBookReviews1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/BogusBookReviews1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231958726005606274\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sorry. I just couldn&#8217;t resist. And I&#8217;m warning you: there may be more.<br \/>In the meantime, while you squirm at the edge of your seat waiting for next week&#8217;s toon (ha ha), here are some links which crossed my virtual desk. This first one is just some total internet coolness: an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npm.gov.tw\/exh96\/orientation\/flash_4\/index.html\">animated Chinese scroll<\/a>&#8211;be sure to click on the white-highlighted squares to watch neat little mini-movies bringing to life the scroll&#8217;s artwork.<br \/>I also found out about an online workshop site for aspiring writers called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badidea.co.uk\/writers-lab.php\">The Writers&#8217; Lab<\/a>, from a British-based publication called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badidea.co.uk\/\">Bad Idea Magazine<\/a>. The most disturbing part of the site is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badidea.co.uk\/butchers-shop-list.php\">Butcher&#8217;s Shop<\/a>: &#8220;Each month, we take a favourite submission from our Show &#038; Tell section, and put it through The Butcher&#8217;s Shop, where the massacre that is BAD IDEA&#8217;s editorial process is laid bare for all to see.&#8221; Jeepers. Not sure if I want to look&#8230;I think I want to save the butchery for when I actually have an agent or an editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just say this one was &#8220;inspired by&#8221; Tuesday&#8217;s post on The Joys of Revision, Fairytale Edition.Sorry. I just couldn&#8217;t resist. And I&#8217;m warning&#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":[2,77,10,86],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}