{"id":1188,"date":"2009-03-13T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:48:00","slug":"the-state-of-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-state-of-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of the art"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today I\u2019m listening to Babs<\/a> and this line keeps jumping out at me: \u201cArt isn\u2019t easy, even when you\u2019re hot. Advancing art is easy; financing it is not \u2026 Every time I start to feel defensive, I remember vinyl is expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In case no one missed me, I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m doing:<\/p>\n

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  1. Damned Day Job. You know, I\u2019m awfully glad to have one right now, so I\u2019ll refrain from bitching. See aforementioned financing art to understand why I feel obliged to tell you that.<\/li>\n
  2. Had a very<\/em> short deadline drop in my lap for a project I feel privileged to be part of, so there is much e-mailing and such going on around my office in order to get this yumminess out into the marketplace.<\/li>\n
  3. Stay<\/em> is finished sorta. A secondary character (a throwaway, but how come all my redshirts end up demanding their own stories?) garnered some attention from alpha readers who said, \u201cHey, what happened to him?\u201d The original story with Vanessa and Eric is finished and in the hands of beta readers. Yet again I\u2019ve decided to do something bizarre, which is to say, put two mirror-image stories back-to-back in the same spine.<\/li>\n
  4. Magdalene<\/em> is 3\/4 finished. I believe Cassie St. James is the woman I\u2019ve most enjoyed writing. Ever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This balancing the art with the marketing is getting on my nerves, quite frankly. I\u2019m a writer and I love my imaginary friends; I settle in with them and I\u2019m mentally \u2026 gone<\/em> \u2026 for days.<\/p>\n

    Plus, I\u2019m still convinced that an author\u2019s brand is the writing, the stories themselves. How can you have a brand<\/em> that\u2019s the writing if you only have 1 product?<\/p>\n

    I like blogging, don\u2019t get me wrong\u2014when I have something to say<\/em>. I also didn\u2019t like feeling like a slave to my stats, who\u2019s visiting, where they\u2019re coming from, what they\u2019re reading \u2026 <\/p>\n

    Some days, I just don\u2019t have anything to say and you know, I think more people should just not say anything when they have nothing to say. Not every second of every day must be filled with words just because we fear silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So today I\u2019m listening to Babs and this line keeps jumping out at me: \u201cArt isn\u2019t easy, even when you\u2019re hot. Advancing art is easy; financing it is not \u2026 Every time I start to feel defensive, I remember vinyl is expensive.\u201d In case no one missed me, I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m doing: Damned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16951,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/16951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}