{"id":2279,"date":"2007-10-23T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:40","slug":"two-more-writing-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Two More Writing Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlywillisholt.com\/blog\/blogger.html\" target= _blank>Kimberly Willis Holt<\/a> is giving away a signed copy of <i>Keeper of the Night<\/i>, and if you&#8217;ve never read it, it&#8217;s intense, and amazing; one of my favorites of hers. (Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/keeper-of-night-giveaway.html\" target= _blank>Cynsations<\/a>, for the heads up.) Second, there&#8217;s a piece by Ann Patchett at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/blog\/?p=2526\" target= _blank>Powell&#8217;s blog<\/a> all about setting. Worth reading, if you have time. Meanwhile, everyone is digging up their <a href=\"http:\/\/yzocaet.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/my-tv-childhood.html\" target= _blank>childhoods<\/a> on Youtube. Well, I warn you: if you value your sanity, you&#8217;ll avoid the <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2007\/10\/mini-roundup-th.html\" target= _blank>Childhoods of Doom<\/a> &#8212; it includes sisters, and viral 80&#8217;s clowns. <b>Don&#8217;t. Go. There.<\/b> You have been warned.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note: it&#8217;s STILL snowing, and today&#8217;s flakes have some unusual appeal. Aside from my favorite, which is Brian Lies&#8217; <i>Freefall<\/i> as posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/greetings-from-nowhere.blogspot.com\/\" target= _blank>Greetings from Nowhere<\/a>, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_jimmy_fund_me.html\" target= _blank>funky dancing snowman<\/a>, an exquisite sloth (or &#8220;ai&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/10\/22\/nscrabble122.xml\" target= _blank>Scrabbletongue<\/a> &#8211; kind of like Parseltongue, only <i>infinitely<\/i> cooler) at <a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/287780.html\" target= _blank>Bildungsroman<\/a>, and the precious <a href=\"http:\/\/chickenspaghetti.typepad.com\/chicken_spaghetti\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-sh.html\" target= _blank>Chant\u00e9,<\/a> who I am meeting for the first time! Don&#8217;t miss Yuyi &#8216;lighting up the Night&#8217; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=955\" target= _blank>LITERALLY<\/a>, over at <i>Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast<\/i>, where you&#8217;ll find the whole blog tour schedule and all the archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Kimberly Willis Holt is giving away a signed copy of Keeper of the Night, and if you&#8217;ve never read it, it&#8217;s intense, and&#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":[18,15,10,52],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}