{"id":309,"date":"2008-09-25T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-09-25T00:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T06:26:31","slug":"guest-blogging-appearance-murder-by-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogging Appearance – Murder by 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the summer I was asked to write up a little something for Murder by 4<\/a>, an amazing little blog set up by four authors – Aaron Paul Lazar, Kim Smith, Marta Stephens and S. W. Vaughn. I may or may not have read something by all of these folks, but I know I’ve read S.W. Vaughn’s work and I enjoy it thoroughly. Anyhoo, I agreed to guest blog, and then as the days passed into weeks, and weeks into nearly two months, my brain refused to cooperate. I was beginning to hope S.W. would send some of her characters after me. Not that I would complain, mind you. *winkwinknudgenudge*<\/p>\n

Apparently the dastardly duo (fornit and muse) were refusing to work not only on fiction, but non-fiction as well. I stopped feeding them, only to wake up to furious tappings from the Royal in the middle of the night. Damn them, they know how to get into my mind and … You’re not falling for any of this, are you? Didn’t think so.<\/em> <\/p>\n

All right, fine. I was putting it off, because suddenly it felt like I was supposed to know what I’m talking about. Throwing stuff out off the cuff is one thing, but actually having to *know* what’s coming out the other end of the keyboard? HA! Not me, surely. By September long weekend, and I still didn’t have a solid idea, although I’d run through about a zillion “how to piss of an editor” rants that would have been biting, witty and fun. But was it the right thing for a writer’s blog? Argh. Not really, not for one as classy and fun – and informative – as Mx4. Last week came, and I was still puttering around with subjects (first I had none, then a thousand, then none..) and it wasn’t until I received my NaNo membership update\/news\/blather from Chris Baty that I felt the gel solidify.<\/p>\n

NaNoWriMo. That’s the ticket! Using NaNo to break the block (I hear the munits snickering) and for those stalwart authors who actually don’t run from their NaNovels and go on to finish\/edit\/polish\/submit – an offer to peruse the novels via submissions to LBF next summer.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty happy with what I wrote, and I hope it didn’t require too much editing on their end. I can not edit my own work. Obviously. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Now then, blather over, here it is: I’ll be at Murder by 4<\/a> on Friday, September 26th!<\/p>\n

Thank you to the Murder by 4<\/a> folks, and ‘specially to S.W. for thinking of me. It was fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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