{"id":971,"date":"2008-01-11T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2008-01-11T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:14:00","slug":"a-feeling-of-accomplishment-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"A Feeling of Accomplishment, Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel all loose and floaty, for I have just completed . . . a book review. <\/p>\n<p>It was all of 1,100 words. It took me three days. That&#8217;s sad&#8211;I should be able to write 1,100 words just loosening up my fingers.<\/p>\n<p>But it was of <a href=\"http:\/\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\/acatalog\/__Teenage_Witches_2884.html\">a book that I admire<\/a> and for an academic journal in which I am trying to publish a longer article (not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxjournals.com\/ojs\/index.php\/pom\/index\"><em>The Pomegranate<\/em><\/a> but another journal.)<\/p>\n<p>So it was almost like writing a response paper: &#8220;The authors make points X,Y, and Z. Which one was salient? Which sentences should I quote?&#8221; And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I cannot post the review here before it appears in the journal, but at some point maybe I can make a link from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/reviews\/reviewsindex.html\">book review page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel all loose and floaty, for I have just completed . . . a book review. It was all of 1,100 words. It took me three days. That&#8217;s sad&#8211;I should be able to write 1,100 words just loosening up my fingers. But it was of a book that I admire and for an academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7,4],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-publishing","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1442","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":0},"title":"Journal on New Religious Movements Seeks Submissions","author":"Chas S. 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Co-Editors: Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University, and Nikki Bado, Iowa State University Book Review Editor: Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University Digital Media Content Manager: Eric Waite, Iowa State\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"body\"","block_context":{"text":"body","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=body"},"img":{"alt_text":"image001","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":84,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=84","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":2},"title":"Neil Gaiman on blogging versus\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 15, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Neil Gaiman on blogging versus writing Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods, a favorite novel of mine, interviewed at Slashdot, responds: \"I'm not sure that there's a conflict between journalling and writing fiction. (I'm not sure that there's not.) 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PDFs of book reviews and of Caroline Tully's article,\u00a0 \"Researching the Past is a Foreign Country: Cognitive Dissonance as a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=880","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":4},"title":"More Book Piles","author":"Chas S. 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