{"id":216,"date":"2004-06-24T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/24\/writing-books\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:10:40","slug":"writing-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/writing-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanna write some books.  I&#8217;m going to start by writing about what I want to write about.  Makes sense, eh?  Some of this is pretty vague in my head and it&#8217;ll probably sound more vague here, but here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, something along the lines of &#8220;A slacker&#8217;s guide to the workplace&#8221; or &#8220;A slacker&#8217;s guide to staying employed.&#8221;  It&#8217;d basically be a tongue-in-cheek guide on how to be a good employee.  I entertain ideas of a &#8220;slacker&#8217;s guide&#8221; series&#8230;guide to being a manager, etc&#8230;  I&#8217;ve actually written about a chapter and a half on this one.  I had two big goals this year: launch finaidpro.com and write this book.  The website is up, but at the pace I&#8217;m writing, I&#8217;m not too optimistic about finishing the book.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a book about &#8220;conscious living.&#8221;  Writing this book would be an education unto itself.  I&#8217;d want to cover lots of ground with this one&#8211;decision making; financial awareness; spiritual awareness; environmental awareness; values awareness; etc. I&#8217;ve got an outline mostly finished, but each section would take a l-o-n-g time to research and write about, to say nothing of tying it all together.<\/p>\n<p>The last one might actually be the easiest one to write.  I&#8217;d like to write a book about being a dad.  Particularly about being a dad to a kid like Tru&#8211;adopted from Korea.  Having lived and worked in Korea, Amy and I have a unique perspective on raising a child of Korean heritage.  Beyond that, I&#8217;d just like to write about what I&#8217;ve learned as a parent, the ways that my love for Truman is manifested (and vice versa, as I observe it) and how I hope to continue learning and growing as a dad.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, now you know.  So don&#8217;t be surprised when I start begging you to buy my books&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanna write some books. I&#8217;m going to start by writing about what I want to write about. Makes sense, eh? Some of this is pretty vague in my head and it&#8217;ll probably sound more vague here, but here we go&#8230; First, something along the lines of &#8220;A slacker&#8217;s guide to the workplace&#8221; or &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}