{"id":1997,"date":"2008-05-08T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:56","slug":"toon-thursday-back-to-writing-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Back to the Writing Grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SCNquTMNBlI\/AAAAAAAAAZY\/zzz_RJrj9zA\/s1600-h\/WritingLife-WhatWritersSee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WritingLife-WhatWritersSee.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198115738573669970\" \/><\/a><br \/>Now that you&#8217;ve suffered with me through all seven Stages of Rejection, we&#8217;re back to normal (-ish) around here at Toon Thursday. Though I do have a quick question for all of you toon fans: If I were to make the Stages of Rejection available printed on, say, mugs from CafePress, and that sort of thing, would you be willing to purchase them for your favorite writing buddies? How about writing notebooks with the &#8220;So Where Do You Get Your Ideas&#8221; toons printed on the cover? Just an idea I&#8217;m playing around with. I&#8217;ll keep you posted&#8230;<br \/>In other news, some congratulations are in order&#8211;congrats to Readergirlz Diva and Fire Escapee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/\">Mitali Perkins<\/a>, who won a 2008 Jane Addams Children&#8217;s Book Award (via <a href=\"http:\/\/jkrbooks.typepad.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/jane-addams-chi.html\">Jen Robinson&#8217;s Book Page<\/a>). Also, congrats to <a href=\"http:\/\/discomermaids.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/fcbd08-jay.html\">Disco Mermaid Jay Asher<\/a> for receiving a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/features\/caBookAwards\/\">California Book Award<\/a> for Young Adult Literature for <u>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/u>. Ying Chang Compestine was also honored for her novel <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/not-so-little-red-book.html\">Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party<\/a>. Hooray for everyone!<br \/>On a totally different topic, check out Gurney Journey for the charming <a href=\"http:\/\/gurneyjourney.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/origami-mystery.html\">story of the mysterious origami cranes<\/a>. Lastly, this past Nonfiction Monday, Sara H. <a href=\"http:\/\/saralewisholmes.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/nonfiction-monday-artists-way.html\">featured The Artist&#8217;s Way on Read Write Believe<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t tried The Artist&#8217;s Way myself, though a few friends have and found it a valuable experience. I&#8217;m always interested in what people think of this, if they&#8217;ve tried it. Beth Lisick had an amusing take on it in her book <u>Helping Me Help Myself<\/u>. I&#8217;m intrigued by The Artist&#8217;s Way, but I have to admit to getting a weird vibe from the website. Could just be a personality thing&#8230;Anyone else have opinions on The Artist&#8217;s Way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you&#8217;ve suffered with me through all seven Stages of Rejection, we&#8217;re back to normal (-ish) around here at Toon Thursday. Though I&#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":[2,7,78,77,10,52],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-literary-life-observations","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4895,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}