{"id":5996,"date":"2013-02-09T01:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2013-02-09T01:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T07:04:39","slug":"mgr-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/mgr-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"MGR Tour: The First"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month’s Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour <\/a>focuses on our first work.\u00a0 I know I must have written a story in the second grade.\u00a0 I think we all do, and I’m sure my mother saved it, and I have it now.\u00a0 I have a box of that stuff — as soon as I had a home of my own, Mom boxed that stuff up and gave it to me.\u00a0 I sifted through it and decided it would be okay to throw some stuff away, but I kept select items, and I’m certain I remember keeping a story. To call that my first story would be useless, though.\u00a0 I have no memory of writing it.<\/p>\n

In high school, I wrote a lot of poetry.\u00a0 I loved to type it out on the typewriter.\u00a0 I have a cardboard bound book of some of that.\u00a0 I remember doing it, but it was the usual high school dreck.\u00a0 I could claim my senior year trigonometry and physics notebooks as my first published writings.\u00a0 Self-published, of course.\u00a0 I called one notebook “Rantings of an Insane Trigonometry Student” and the other “Ravings of An Insane Physics Student.”\u00a0 Some friends wanted copies, and, during my freshman year of college, I painstakingly typed the notebooks onto onion skin paper (my favorite).\u00a0 Then I took them to the campus photocopy place, and made two copies (I believe Adnyl and Adnileb are the only two people who received a copy of this missive — if there are more, please remind me in comments). I signed them and mailed them to my friends.\u00a0 I kept the original for myself (in addition to the original spiral bound notebooks). When I started this blog, I reached back to those titles and combined them to create “Rantings and Ravings of An Insane Writer.” I try not to rant or rave, and I’m mostly sane.\u00a0 I am a writer.\u00a0 Once I make it through the revision process and produce something suitable for commercial purposes, I may even become a published writer.\u00a0 I haven’t decided if I’m going to pursue traditional publishing or self-publishing (on something other than onion skin).\u00a0 I have time to ponder that yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month’s Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour focuses on our first work.\u00a0 I know I must have written a story in the second grade.\u00a0 I think we all do, and I’m sure my mother saved it, and I have it now.\u00a0 I have a box of that stuff — as soon as …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}