{"id":5518,"date":"2011-04-18T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/18\/links-for-2011-04-18\/"},"modified":"2011-04-18T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T07:00:01","slug":"links-for-2011-04-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/18\/links-for-2011-04-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-04-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/2011\/the-4-hour-staffing-season\">TV staffing: uniquely awful, but survivable | johnaugust.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Here is what it means to be a TV writer: You are paid to work in conditions that vastly accelerate the degradation of your body while brainstorming fantasy lives for the select group of your co-workers who work in conditions designed to make their already-exceptional bodies look better than yours ever did or will.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a psychologically fraught occupation for this and other reasons. But mostly this one.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lancemannion.typepad.com\/lance_mannion\/2011\/04\/onward-christian-soldiers-at-24-frames-per-second.html\">Lance Mannion: Onward Christian soldiers, at 24 frames per second<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The main characters in these Christian movies are in the business of being saved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t do things for others.&nbsp; The main action of the movie is in their having things done to them.&nbsp; Which means that if a movie is to be &#8220;Christian,&#8221; it has to have at its center characters who are passive and to a great degree helpless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christian&#8221; movies are targeted at a conservative Christian audience and so they reflect conservative Christian beliefs and the main one of these is that the individual is essentially helpless in the face of temptation.&nbsp; Helplessness on the part of the hero or heroine is not traditionally the stuff that makes for exciting storytelling.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/mannion\">mannion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelastackpole.com\/?p=2446\">Writing in the Golden Age of Ebooks&nbsp;|&nbsp;Stormwolf.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Ask yourself this question: How long does it take you to consume an average novel? Six or seven hours? A day? A week? A month? With that answer in mind, consider this: It will take me roughly one hour of work per thousand words of that novel. So, the average novel will take me a minimum of two and a half weeks to write. Let&#8217;s bump that out to three to include edits and proofing. So, that&#8217;s 21 Days for a Novel; and you&#8217;ll devour it in a day? I daresay, if you&#8217;re reading this and you can go at the book without too much interruption, you are guaranteed to finish that book is less time than it took me to write it.<\/p>\n<p>What this means, then, is that the capacity of the audience to consume a writer&#8217;s work will always exceed his capacity to generate work. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/ebooks\">ebooks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV staffing: uniquely awful, but survivable | johnaugust.com &#8220;Here is what it means to be a TV writer: You are paid to work in conditions that vastly accelerate the degradation of your body while brainstorming fantasy lives for the select group of your co-workers who work in conditions designed to make their already-exceptional bodies look&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/18\/links-for-2011-04-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-04-18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}