{"id":23,"date":"2008-04-23T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-07-31T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:27:10","slug":"antagonized-to-protagonize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/antagonized-to-protagonize\/","title":{"rendered":"Antagonized to Protagonize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting day yesterday to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than recap it again, you can read the gory details over at <a title=\"TOWFORM - International Harassment\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.towform.com\/2008\/04\/international-harassment-or-why-at.html\" target=\"_self\">Towform<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here I just wanted to quickly add something a little more on topic.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered an interesting collaborative writing site called <a title=\"Protagonize.com\" href=\"http:\/\/protagonize.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Protagonize<\/a> a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It allows authors to post chapters to stories that are then continued by other authors in a bit of a writing relay race.\u00c2\u00a0 Two flavors are available: a traditional chapter by chapter story, or a branching out &#8220;<a title=\"Wikipedia - Addventure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Addventure\" target=\"_self\">addventure<\/a>&#8221; that allows for non-linear, <a title=\"Amazon.com - Choose Your Own Adventure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=choose%20your%20own%20adventure&amp;tag=timelpersu-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_self\">choose your own adventure<\/a> types of tales.\u00c2\u00a0 At the time I thought it was neat, but didn&#8217;t really have anything in mind to post there.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, yesterday&#8217;s events inspired me to start a story on Protagonize that you can take a look at <a title=\"Protagonize - &quot;Wrong Number?&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/protagonize.com\/story\/wrong-number\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to contribute your own chapter if you so desire.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s definitely something there worth exploring, but since I&#8217;m supposed to be working on a new novel right now it didn&#8217;t quite fit in with my plans, thus becoming my first dip into the collaborative waters.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Protagonize - &quot;Wrong Number?&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/protagonize.com\/story\/wrong-number\" target=\"_self\">Read (or contribute to) &#8220;Wrong Number?&#8221; at Protagonize.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting day yesterday to say the least. Rather than recap it again, you can read the gory details over at Towform.\u00c2\u00a0 Here I just wanted to quickly add something a little more on topic. I discovered an interesting collaborative writing site called Protagonize a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It allows authors to post&#8230;<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/commentary-75-seven-and-a-half-cents\/","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":0},"title":"Commentary 7.5: Seven and a Half Cents","author":"LBDG","date":"April 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Changing things up today, I thought it would be interesting to dissect the longest deleted chapter since we're at the point in the book where it would have appeared. 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Other tidbits: I admit the cliffhanger in the previous chapter was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":60,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/commentary-26-across-26-winters\/","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":5},"title":"Commentary 26: Across 26 Winters","author":"LBDG","date":"July 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"And we've almost come to the end. \u00a0Generally speaking, endings are tough. \u00a0You need to tie up as many dangling threads as possible, leave the reader satisfied that reading the book was worthwhile, and try to go out on a memorable high note without it feeling abrupt or forced. \u00a0Let's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}