{"id":1150,"date":"2008-09-11T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/11\/sitcom-room-etc\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T02:51:00","slug":"sitcom-room-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/11\/sitcom-room-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitcom Room, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I registered for <a href=\"http:\/\/sitcomroom.com\/\">Ken Levine&#8217;s Sitcom Room<\/a>, wherein I will spend 33 hours in a hotel with 19 other TV writer wannabes, working in a team of 5 to rewrite and improve a comedy scene.<\/p>\n<p>That happens one week after <a href=\"http:\/\/ghost-patrol.com\/\">Ghost Patrol<\/a>, during which I will spend 30 hours in a van, competing against 21 other teams, working with my team of 6 to complete a marathon puzzle hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this all takes place in the month of November, also known as National Novel Writing Month (<a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a>), when I&#8217;ll be pounding out 50,000 words of a first draft.<\/p>\n<p>Before then&#8211;just over a week from now, in fact&#8211;I&#8217;m flying back east for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/Paradise\/\">Viable Paradise<\/a>.  I&#8217;m stocking up on sleep now.  Starting tonight.  Really.<\/p>\n<p>And, on October 3rd, <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/watch-this-space.html\">something wonderful<\/a> will happen.  (It will continue happening for at least the next year, but that&#8217;s another story.)<\/p>\n<p>My point is this:  <a href=\"http:\/\/communicationsoffice.tripod.com\/1-01.txt\">Break&#8217;s over.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I registered for Ken Levine&#8217;s Sitcom Room, wherein I will spend 33 hours in a hotel with 19 other TV writer wannabes, working in a team of 5 to rewrite and improve a comedy scene. That happens one week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}