{"id":5211,"date":"2013-06-01T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:34:32","slug":"back-to-blogging-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/back-to-blogging-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to blogging, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"post\">\n<li class=\"post\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/thebooks\/dunham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dunham<\/em><\/a>\u2019s wrapping up and going into production, which means I\u2019m right on track for my July 4 release date.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I have the attention span of a gnat, and I\u2019ve always thought\/spoken in bullet-point lists. It just got worse since I fell in love with Twitter oh so long ago. 140 characters is just about perfect.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I had a midlife crisis recently when I turned 45, realized I might not actually die young like a lot of people in my family do, AND realized I\u2019d done everything I intended to do and that <em>Dunham<\/em> is the culmination. It\u2019s the book I\u2019ve worked on sporadically since I caught the idea in 1990 and had no idea what to do with it. That may have been a miscalculation.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li class=\"post\">In terms of the publishing world, <a title=\"Veni, vidi, vici.\" href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/veni-vidi-vic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\u2019ve said all I had to say<\/a>. If I were inclined to told-you-so\u2019s, I\u2019d be RTing my ancient blog posts all the freaking time. Welcome to my 5-year-old epiphanies, Publishing. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130724091131\/www.the-digital-reader.com\/2013\/05\/31\/the-hybrid-author-is-the-new-pottermore-hype\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You\u2019re still getting it oh! so wrong, but I\u2019m too tired to yell at you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I\u2019ve always appreciated good craftsmanship, whatever it is. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/a-lone-artist-wendy-drolma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">occasionally featured artists on my blog before whose work I like<\/a> because I think it\u2019s important to tell a craftsman when you like his work.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">Lately I\u2019ve taken to Pinterest and Tumblr just for <a href=\"http:\/\/zsazsabellagio.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretty pictures<\/a>. I\u2019m trying to find my Zen and it seems that pretty pictures and well-done crafts do that.<\/li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16120 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601_raspberries.jpg\" alt=\"An image of cups of yogurt topped with sugared or iced raspberries, on a weathered table and mismatched silver spoons of vintage patterns.\" width=\"401\" height=\"602\"><\/p>\n<li class=\"post\">I need to get my house in order. Declutter. Shred old tax documents. Craigslist the shit out of my house, beginning with paper books and CDs.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">The things I feel strongly about and would like to rant about here include religion and politics, and you know what? I\u2019m actually not interested in getting on a soapbox on my blog. That\u2019s what my books are for.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">Romancelandia (which is a nanoscopic part of romance readers) (which I found out at RT), is too fraught with infighting and contrary agendas and politicization and passive-aggressive hostility and cowardice and trolling disguised as activism \/ education. Not interested in getting into that, either. I like what I like and fuck you if you think I\u2019m privileged \/ ignorant \/ stupid \/ still-under-the-thrall-of-the-patriarchy, and need to be protected from my deplorable taste in literature. And fuck you 60 times over if you don\u2019t think \u201cIT\u201d (whatever \u201cIT\u201d is) should be written and\/or read. GTFO of my entertainment. (That\u2019ll land me on a few more badly-behaving-authors lists and garner some grudge-ratings and hate-readings, to which I say, if someone has the time to do that, they are very privileged to have that much time on their hands.) Now I have nothing more to say on that topic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so. This blog\u2019s probably going to look like a Tumblr for a little while because a) I like to share things I find beautiful \/ useful \/ funny, b) I\u2019m short on words right now, and c) I want to share my Zen as I stumble my way around life post-bucket-list to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunham\u2019s wrapping up and going into production, which means I\u2019m right on track for my July 4 release date. I have the attention span of a gnat, and I\u2019ve always thought\/spoken in bullet-point lists. It just got worse since I fell in love with Twitter oh so long ago. 140 characters is just about perfect. 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