{"id":131,"date":"2014-09-30T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/09\/30\/im-old\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:01:00","slug":"im-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/09\/30\/im-old\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M OLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AND THAT&#8217;S OKAY. ISN&#8217;T THAT RIGHT, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedoubleclicks.com\/\">THE DOUBLECLICKS<\/a>? RIGHT.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCF_js2y0Ec\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zCF_js2y0Ec\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/zCF_js2y0Ec<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any big plans for my birthday this year&mdash;mostly because, honestly, it&#8217;ll be hard to top <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2013\/10\/this-is-40.html\">last year&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2013\/10\/snoutcast-190-this-was-40.html\">incredible<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2013\/10\/my-40th-birthday-survey-results.html\">awesomeness<\/a>&mdash;but it&#8217;s been a really good year so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I self-published <a href=\"http:\/\/curtiscchen.com\/512book\/\">a collection of my <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i> stories<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We went on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/wiki\/JoCo_Cruise_Crazy\/JoCo_Cruise_Crazy_4\">fourth JoCo Cruise Crazy<\/a>, and ran our best puzzle-hunt-at-sea yet<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/08\/i-am-home.html\">I went to Clarion West!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/07\/i-will-miss-being-here.html\">I got an agent!!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Puzzled Pint grew to <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/puzzled-pint\/5cuGcuTy_no\">ten cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I sold more short fiction, including <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/science-fiction\/aliens\/curtis-c-chen\/zugzwang\">my first SFWA qualifying pro sale!!!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been invited to present at <a href=\"http:\/\/storyconvention.com\/2014-schedule\/\">StoryCon<\/a> this month and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/other-resources\/for-readers\/reading-series\/sfwa-northwest-reading-series\/\">SFWA Readings<\/a> next month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More short fiction sales, hopefully (I currently have nine stories out on submission, of which three have been shortlisted)<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll see what happens with <i>Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i>, the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/awfulagent.com\/agents\/sam-morgan\">my agent<\/a> is trying to sell<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siwc.ca\/\">Surrey International Writers&#8217; Conference<\/a> for the first time<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be doing <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/participants\/ckl\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> again, of course<\/li>\n<li>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a> will expand to <i>eleven<\/i> cities this month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Life is good. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND THAT&#8217;S OKAY. 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