{"id":5568,"date":"2012-10-19T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:30:24","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-101912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/retrobruxist-friday-101912\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 10\/19\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ago, I submitted The Foster Chronicles (Buffy’s) to my writing workshop for critique. So it was with more than a little agita that I went to class last night. The folks in the class are nice and supportive but frank; if something doesn’t work, they say so.<\/p>\n

I needn’t have worried so much. People liked my stuff a lot. In fact, two people said some version of “I don’t read blogs, and I’m not a dog person, so I was skeptical, but I really got into it!”<\/p>\n

One guy did say, “As a blog this is fine. For writing to keep someone’s interest or tell a story, it doesn’t work for me.” In his other notes, he kept referring to Buffy as ‘he’, so it’s clear it really didn’t<\/em> hold his interest.<\/p>\n

And there was some confusion. One woman wrote that I shouldn’t underline things so much, not realizing that those things were hyperlinks, and just about everybody put a big question mark next to where I wrote “What is that I don’t even”.<\/p>\n

But overall, it was validating, and I got some ideas about how to turn it into a larger piece, even one where I fictionalize it and weave it together with another, totally different, painfuller thing I’ve been going through for the past four months.<\/p>\n

Now. All I have to do is do that. No big.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Three years ago<\/strong>, I was figuring out that dogs are pretty much fourth graders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After failing at Match and OKCupid, I decided eHarmony was worth a shot<\/a> two years ago<\/strong>. That was dumb.<\/p>\n

I did NOT celebrate ANYtober<\/a> this time last year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

MOAR FUN WITH PHOTOBOOTH:<\/p>\n

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Don’t I look like the old woman from “Goonies”?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week ago, I submitted The Foster Chronicles (Buffy’s) to my writing workshop for critique. So it was with more than a little agita that I went to class last night. The folks in the class are nice and supportive but frank; if something doesn’t work, they say so. I needn’t have worried so much. … Continue reading Retrobruxist Friday 10\/19\/12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-dating","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}