{"id":31,"date":"2014-12-10T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/2014-the-year-of-not-so-much\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:19:00","slug":"2014-the-year-of-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/2014-the-year-of-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"2014, The Year Of Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s time for the end of year review thing, something that was most enjoyable to write last year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">But pride comes before a fall, so it seems only right that after last year&#8217;s belter of a start to this publishing larkey things would drop off. I ended last year feeling like a proper writer. Stories published and plenty of opportunity on the horizon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<br \/>\nNone of which came to pass.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nTo be fair, I have sold one story which should appear early next year, allegedly. But nothing else I wrote worked out. Still, what does not kill us makes us stronger. Or sends us off in a massive storm to kick a bush.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nIn better news I did do several readings, including in front of the General Public and at cons. Nice and something I greatly enjoy even if it is a billion times more frightening than reading someone else&#8217;s words. I also ended up on a quiz team of real writers at Eastercon and Worldcon. This was an act of bare-faced cheek and the karma backlash almost undoubtedly explains my failure to sell anything this year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nAll in, 2014 was a quiet year writing wise (a very busy year on other distractions though) but hopefully, with the application of elbow grease, the calm before the storm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nBy way of starting a tradition, following last Christmas&#8217;s free story, I thought I&#8217;d stick up the most seasonal thing I have. Published almost two years ago, why not read of <a href=\"http:\/\/munchkinstein.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/the-15th-of-december.html\">The 15th of December<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">You can read it on other dates too and outside of Norwich.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nHappy Seasonal Whatnots!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the end of year review thing, something that was most enjoyable to write last year. But pride comes before a fall, so it seems only right that after last year&#8217;s belter of a start to this publishing larkey things would drop off. I ended last year feeling like a proper writer. Stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebie","category-goals","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}