{"id":6,"date":"2015-01-07T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachbarnesonwriting.wordpress.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:09:06","slug":"title-of-post-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/2015\/01\/07\/title-of-post-here\/","title":{"rendered":"[title of post here]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Because I love mountains, here’s a picture of some!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, one thing’s for sure: no one has ever written a blog by me before!<\/p>\n

This blog represents a beginning of sorts. \u00a0I’ve been writing stories since 2007 and telling them since long before that, but this is my first blog. \u00a0It’s simultaneously a trial and a manifestation of ambition. \u00a0I am a writer who wishes to be seen as an author. \u00a0I seek legitimacy–validation of value to society–like so many other aspiring ‘creators of things’. \u00a0If entrepreneurs want you to buy their stuff, then I want you to buy into<\/em> my stories.\u00a0\u00a0While\u00a0I know that a blog does not an author make, it is a piece among many that builds presence and bolsters the illusion of credibility, dare I say even authority. \u00a0And that’s kind of important.<\/p>\n

But enough serious stuff. \u00a0I understand that\u00a0it is almost gauche to not include a personal introduction in one’s first blog post. \u00a0To that end, allow me tell you a little about myself. \u00a0Puns and sarcasm are my bread and butter, which is unfortunate, since a decent portion of my family has elected to be\u00a0gluten-free. \u00a0My favorite Disney ‘princess’ is Mulan. \u00a0I \u00a0love curry even though it gives me horrible diarrhea. \u00a0Also, I just realized that it is impossible to spell\u00a0diarrhea.<\/p>\n

As a writer, I love Oxford commas. \u00a0Because of 3rd grade typing class,\u00a0I am instinctually driven to use\u00a0two spaces between sentences despite the long-term environmental ramifications. \u00a0Without serious editing, my writing is the most heavy-handed crap you could ever scrape off a broken iMac keyboard. \u00a0I possess a keen bias toward secondary world fiction, as proven by\u00a0my writing output and reading habits.<\/p>\n

I started writing because I knew that if I didn’t, my head would explode. \u00a0A few years later, I wrote a short story that mutated into a novel without my consent. \u00a0Pounding out up to 6,000\u00a0words a day to avoid cranial rupturing and severe, creative-induced bleeding from all facial orifices, I realized that I might actually be masochistic\u00a0enough to become an author.<\/p>\n

My world changed when I finished that first novel, published it myself, and handed it out to my high school friends two weeks shy of my graduation-deadline. \u00a0It was a hasty job for sure, chock full of continuity errors, leering gaps in plotting, and continental tangents, but, like this blog, it represented\u00a0a\u00a0beginning<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As Taveol, the protagonist from my most recent novel AVENGARDE, puts it:<\/p>\n

“Small things direct our lives, I realize.\u00a0 Minuscule impulses.\u00a0 An unimportant walk to the icy sea, a casual glance to the dark shadows, a tingle of curiosity.\u00a0 And like lightning out of clear sky, the world is irrevocably changed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small things direct our lives, I realize. Minuscule impulses. An unimportant walk to the icy sea, a casual glance to the dark shadows, a tingle of curiosity. And like lightning out of a clear sky, the world is irrevocably changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[64,65,94,95,148,204],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybarnes.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}