{"id":344,"date":"2007-10-09T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2007-10-09T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T01:42:00","slug":"this-book-and-blogging-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/10\/09\/this-book-and-blogging-life\/","title":{"rendered":"This Book-and-Blogging Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RwxHe0klvkI\/AAAAAAAAAiU\/XZWTNTjvT1o\/s1600-h\/P2090125.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RwxHe0klvkI\/AAAAAAAAAiU\/XZWTNTjvT1o\/s200\/P2090125.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Inspired by Alex Juhasz (who is currently teaching a <a href=\"http:\/\/aljean.wordpress.com\/learning-from-youtube-syllabus\/\">course on YouTube <span style=\"font-style: italic\">about<\/span> YouTube<\/a>), I&#8217;ve decided to teach my fall webinar <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">&#8220;Making It Pop: Translating Your Ideas for Trade&#8221;<\/span> as a bloginar.  Meaning, the online part of the class will take place as&#8211;you guessed it&#8211;a blog.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to learn about using the blogosphere as a platform for your books than by becoming more familiar with a blog, right?  <\/p>\n<p>So the class blog&#8211;private, of course!&#8211;will provide a forum where participants can post elements of their book proposals, or thoughts toward ideas, as we go along.  And get feedback.  I&#8217;ll be walking participants through the mechanics on our first conference call (that would be Nov 6).  We&#8217;ve got some great NYC-based agents and editors lined up for the calls.  And while I&#8217;m at it, and for those of you who like to get ahead (you know who you are), the suggested reading for the course will be from: <a>Thinking like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published.<\/a>  More info&#8211;dates, cost, rationale&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/announcing-fall-webinar-making-it-pop.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think Marco took this (goofy) pic of me the day I got my current laptop.  Boy, do I love me my MacBook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Alex Juhasz (who is currently teaching a course on YouTube about YouTube), I&#8217;ve decided to teach my fall webinar &#8220;Making It Pop: Translating Your Ideas for Trade&#8221; as a bloginar. Meaning, the online part of the class will take place as&#8211;you guessed it&#8211;a blog. What better way to learn about using the blogosphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21195,21414,21941],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging-life","tag-gwp-institute-2","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}