{"id":578,"date":"2007-08-30T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/578"},"modified":"2007-08-30T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:30:01","slug":"to-all-the-writers-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/578","title":{"rendered":"To all the writers I know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a booky week. I&#8217;ve been completely taken in by Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s Twilight series. I&#8217;ve been jabbering about it to anyone who will listen that it&#8217;s going to be as big as Harry Potter (except not for boys or younger kids) and just as engrossing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I miss about HP. I want to be engrossed in a story. The only downside of Twilight is that it&#8217;s a much more emotional book. (This is why it&#8217;s not really appropriate for younger kids. It&#8217;s not vulgar or violent,   but it&#8217;s all about the angst and lurve.) The descriptions of serious break-uppy feelings were enough to make me hurt. I am curious what readers who haven&#8217;t been in a love-and-lost situation feel about it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,   the point is that Twilight is the first thing Stephenie Meyers wrote. And my own, personal Stephanie just sent me the manuscript for her very first novel. And just now I read a hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/pixiestixkidspix.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/23\/a-cautionary-tale-for-horses-and-self-published-authors-everywhere\/\">blog post<\/a> about the dangers of smoking drugs (and self publishing). It&#8217;s called &#8220;Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say NO to Drugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I may need to turn one of the illustrations into a teeshirt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixiestixkidspix.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/latawnya_11b.jpg?w=500&#038;h=377\" alt=\"smoking drugs and slapping hooves\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a booky week. I&#8217;ve been completely taken in by Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s Twilight series. I&#8217;ve been jabbering about it to anyone who will listen that it&#8217;s going to be as big as Harry Potter (except not for boys or younger kids) and just as engrossing. That&#8217;s what I miss about HP. I want to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}