{"id":2197,"date":"2010-11-30T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:59:24","slug":"time-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/time-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to celebrate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November was such a busy month that I didn&#8217;t do any journalling.  But now, with the draft of g0ddesses.net wrapped up, it seems like a good time start up again.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, what a month.  I wrote a novel!  Well, at least a draft of one &#8230; 75,000 words.  g0ddesses.net needs a lot of work of course, but still: I&#8217;m pretty darned happy about it.  D got her novel done too, and I can wait to read it.  Yay us!  Tonight&#8217;s the end of NaNoWriMo, and we&#8217;re having champagne to celebrate celebrating.  Thanks to ladysheishou and the <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/s.dreamwidth.org\/img\/silk\/identity\/community.png\" alt=\"[community profile] \" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><strong>nano_writers<\/strong><\/a> community.  Dedication and links to some excerpts below.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not the only reason to celebrate.  We made great progress on <em>Tales from the Net<\/em> this month, and the second half of the month was filled with activism.  On the night before Thanksgiving, after National Opt Out Day, my Facebook profile said &#8220;i heart the grassroots&#8221; and wow it&#8217;s true.  I think when we look back at <a href=\"http:\/\/iwilloptout.org\/2010\/11\/29\/imagine-this\/\">what just happened<\/a> we&#8217;ll realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/iwilloptout.org\/2010\/11\/22\/heroes-are-everywhere\/\">heroes<\/a> across the country stood up and said &#8220;enough is enough&#8221;.  The organizing happened on message forums, blogs (including me on <a href=\"http:\/\/iwilloptout.org\/\">I Will Opt Out<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/user\/jonpincus\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a>), Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, tribe.net, and email; social networks really are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1113\">the future of civil liberties<\/a>.  I&#8217;m proud to have been a part of it and looking forward to working together as we fight for our rights.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all, a great month.  Pass the champagne!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to the many Muses who inspire and help me to create<br \/>\nto all the goddesses who grace the story with their presence<br \/>\nand to the anomaly, for 25 amazing years<br \/>\ni hope the story proves worthy of you all!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come then, I pray, grant me surcease from sorrow,<br \/>\nDrive away care, I beseech thee, O goddesses<br \/>\nFulfil with me what I yearn to accomplish,<br \/>\nBe thou my allies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(after <a title=\"Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Poems_of_Sappho#Hymn_to_Aphrodite\">Sappho<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Excerpts<\/strong>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/4445.html\">What a weekend<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/4920.html\">Dinner with D<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/50302.html?thread=495998#cmt495998\">Plumage of the Vanities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/50638.html?thread=519630#cmt519630\">You won&#8217;t tell everybody I&#8217;m a wimp from Seattle, will you?<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/5193.html\">Moonlets in the Morning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/5599.html\">Muses, Moirae, and a TWIST<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/5729.html\">A long night<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/6118.html\">The big meeting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/6263.html\">Meetings, bloody meetings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/52475.html#comments\">Mixed reviews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/52974.html?thread=589550#cmt589550\">And there&#8217;s a shopping allowance!<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/53229.html#comments\">A cluttered schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/53871.html#comments\">Kicking off my heels<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/6525.html\">Any meeting you can walk away from is a good meeting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/55216.html?thread=621488#cmt621488\">Are you starting to see what I&#8217;m getting at?<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nano-writers.dreamwidth.org\/55893.html?thread=637269#cmt637269\">A missive from D<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/7148.html\">Live from the Killing Fields<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">crossposted <a href=\"http:\/\/kallistixf.dreamwidth.org\/7229.html\">on <em>Dreamwidth<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November was such a busy month that I didn&#8217;t do any journalling. But now, with the draft of g0ddesses.net wrapped up, it seems like a good time start up again. So &#8230; Wow, what a month. I wrote a novel! Well, at least a draft of one &#8230; 75,000 words. g0ddesses.net needs a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g0ddesses-net","category-personal","category-tales-from-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}