{"id":556,"date":"2014-07-17T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:41:19","slug":"a-little-of-this-little-of-tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"A Little of This, A Little of That&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DumbestIdeaEver.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DumbestIdeaEver.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done a links roundup in a while. That&#8217;s mainly because I&#8217;m so far behind on my e-newsletters and other online reading that I&#8217;ve got an enormous backlog to go through. I put all that stuff in a separate email folder and instead of making me feel organized, it ends up languishing in there for months, making me feel guilty. So periodically I open up a few and find out what I&#8217;ve been missing, and now I&#8217;ll share a few links with YOU in case you also missed them. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/2014\/03\/talks-with-roger\/ilsa-j-bick-talks-roger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ilsa J. Bick Talks with Read Roger<\/a> in a VERY interesting interview for Horn Book, including some teasers about her next book, <i>White Space<\/i>, and why Ilsa Is Fearless despite all that scary stuff she writes. <\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t read a lot of actual memoirs, but I really, really like graphic novel memoirs, and I can&#8217;t wait to read <i>The Dumbest Idea Ever<\/i>! by Jimmy Gownley, who wrote the Amelia Rules! series. GraphicNovelReporter has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicnovelreporter.com\/reviews\/the-dumbest-idea-ever\" target=\"_blank\">nice review<\/a> as well as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicnovelreporter.com\/authors\/jimmy-gownley\/news\/interview-012914\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Gownley<\/a>, in which he talks about his book&#8211;which is all about how he became a cartoonist: <i>&#8220;I never had a Plan B. I actually don\u2019t believe in Plan B\u2019s, because they<br \/>\n are really just excuses to give up on your dream as soon as possible.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/i>Yeah. What he said.<\/li>\n<li>Also, in case you missed it, check out GraphicNovelReporter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicnovelreporter.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/the-best-graphic-novels-of-2013\" target=\"_blank\">Best Graphic Novels of 2013<\/a>. My TBR list just got a lot longer&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ages ago, I found a roundup of links on Writer&#8217;s Digest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/online-editor\/humor-writing-basics-a-list-of-funny-words\" target=\"_blank\">humor and writing<\/a>&#8211;how to inject more humor into your work, lists of &#8220;funny words,&#8221; and more. If you&#8217;ve ever agonized over the perfect way to word that hilarious phrase (I used to have a freelance job where I did that every day!), you might want to check it out. <i> <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done a links roundup in a while. That&#8217;s mainly because I&#8217;m so far behind on my e-newsletters and other online reading that&#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":[2,7,60,59,10,86,62],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-book-news","tag-comix","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings","tag-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}