{"id":71,"date":"2007-07-21T23:07:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T11:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/point-click\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T08:46:36","slug":"point-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to get the number of Unread posts down to less than 200 when I add a few new feeds &#8211; and <em><strong>phwappp<\/strong><\/em> as the Unread posts leap gaily to 315. <strong>Fine<\/strong>. I can keep up with my essential daily reading out of the way. If I don&#8217;t sleep.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is life after <a href=\"*\" target=\"_blank\">How To Write Screenplays &#8211; Badly<\/a> &#8211; scribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16814689717074495531\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Slater<\/a> has himself a new blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyslater.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hi My Name is Jeremy Slater<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyslater.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/look-kids-another-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">blogging scriptwriter<\/a> field may be pretty crowded but few &#8211; very few &#8211; blogs are as deliciously <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremyslater.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/big-fucking-robots.html\" target=\"_blank\">laugh out loud<\/a> as Mr Slater&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For a hands-on approach to TV-writing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0326490\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Golick<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/runningwithmyeyesclosed.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Running With My Eyes Closed<\/a> is a fantastic resource complete with case studies. (Look! A <a href=\"http:\/\/runningwithmyeyesclosed.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/wire-episode-1-target.html\" target=\"_blank\">breakdown of <em>The Wire<\/em> pilot<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>TV writer and producer (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millennium_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Millenium<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0411011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical Investigation<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0460643\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Killer Instinct<\/em><\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0717954\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Reindl<\/a> has a <em>badass<\/em> blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/seriocity.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">seriocity<\/a>. Her honesty about her travails are searing and refreshing &#8211; and a reminder that you mess with writers at your <a href=\"http:\/\/seriocity.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/rip-gilmores.html\" target=\"_blank\">peril<\/a>. \u00a0(Fedora-tip to the once quiet <a href=\"http:\/\/leethomson.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Thomson<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/leethomson.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/new-blogs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mesdames Golick and Reindl<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09002764562048409240\" target=\"_blank\">ammani<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/jikku.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">filthy, funny, flawed, gorgeous<\/a> for bite-sized prose that <em>resonates<\/em>. Personal favourites so far are <a href=\"http:\/\/jikku.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/memory-crumbs.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jikku.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/quick-tale-165.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. \u00a0(Fedora-tip to <strong>The Goddess<\/strong> who I&#8217;ve recently gotten addicted to blog-reading.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And finally, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">National Radio<\/a>, I discovered that the mercilessly acerbic and clinically hysterical comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeloder.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Loder<\/a> has a <em>website<\/em>. <em>Sweeet.<\/em> No blog but it has some brilliant pieces on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeloder.com\/writing_jury_service.html\" target=\"_blank\">jury service<\/a> and the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeloder.com\/writing_erotica.html\" target=\"_blank\">Erotica expo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Enjoy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to get the number of Unread posts down to less than 200 when I add a few new feeds &#8211; and phwappp as the Unread posts leap gaily to 315. Fine. I can keep up with my essential daily reading out of the way. If I don&#8217;t sleep. There is life after How &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[472,462,468,476,473,465,285,464,466,475,470,63,474,40,469,463,467,471,287,30],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-ammani","tag-blog","tag-breakdown","tag-erotica-expo","tag-filthy-funny-flawed-gorgeous","tag-hi-my-name-is-jeremy-slater","tag-how-to-write-screenplays-badly","tag-jeremy-slater","tag-jill-golick","tag-jury-service","tag-kay-reindl","tag-lee-thomson","tag-mike-loder","tag-national-radio","tag-pilot","tag-rss","tag-running-with-my-eyes-closed","tag-seriocity","tag-the-goddess","tag-the-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}