I stopped reading you when I was 17. There was a reason for this: I\u2019d run through everything you\u2019d ever written by that time and I was burnt out on you, so I went on to glomming my next author, whom I have also never read again. Lather, rinse, repeat throughout my life. Glom, abandon, glom, abandon. Yes, I am an evil reader.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m caught in a perpetual spin cycle concerning how I can classify what I wrote, which I can\u2019t. Still can\u2019t. Lately, I\u2019ve just kind of been looking at publishing as a business (\u2019cuz I got one of those press thingies now) and getting a wee bit discouraged when it\u2019s finally drilled into my head that classifications aren\u2019t just nice to have or helpful, they\u2019re necessary. \u201cWe don\u2019t know where to put it\u201d isn\u2019t just a statement of fact, it\u2019s a deep, deep statement on business in general. In fact, after yesterday\u2019s post springboarding off of Kara Lennox<\/a>\u2019s Romancing the Blog post, I realized that my writing is so niche it may have an audience in the double digits if I\u2019m lucky. That\u2019s my variable; some thing (don\u2019t know what) in all my writing has taken it out of an otherwise orderly classification.<\/p>\n Today I had reason to be directed to the acceptance speech Stephen King made in 2003<\/a> for an award from the National Book Foundation. He said: \u201cI never in my life wrote a single word for money.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Two things struck me: 1) I could be a lot more supportive of my husband and 2) it\u2019s okay that I\u2019m not doing this for the money.<\/p>\n Dude, I am so going to start reading you again. It\u2019s been a while.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong> Just after I posted this, I found a thread on A Motley Vision<\/a> concerning Seth Godin\u2019s passion\/pop curve<\/a>, which pretty much let me know I\u2019m not alone in this endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I stopped reading you when I was 17. There was a reason for this: I\u2019d run through everything you\u2019d ever written by that time and I was burnt out on you, so I went on to glomming my next author, whom I have also never read again. Lather, rinse, repeat throughout my life. Glom, abandon, […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15322,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/15322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}