{"id":128,"date":"2006-09-10T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/09\/10\/post-391-benefits-of-writing\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T22:48:44","slug":"post-391-benefits-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/09\/10\/post-391-benefits-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"post 391 ~ benefits of writing :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"110\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.p8ntballer.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_scifix\/Images-reference\/paintball2006a.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;whatPAINTBALLgear?&#8221; (2006) magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandsports.net\/Pages\/CurrentIssue.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_scifix\/Images-reference\/sandsports2006-07a.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Sand Sports&#8221; (July\/Aug 2006) magazine<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>post 391<\/b> ~ ah, yes, the benefits of writing ;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in the past, when the writer&#8217;s bug bit me and i stuck with it, occasionally, i&#8217;d reach a level of inspiration (or obsession, lol) where i&#8217;d research stuff i never planned&#8230; in past fics, i&#8217;ve researched network hacking, electronic tax service centers, the yakuza (japanese mafia), rationalist philosophy, the kansas city royals baseball team, and so on&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>and now, in the midst of my sci-fic &#8220;the rosetta&#8221; at , when i visited the Borders bookstore today, a couple of magazines caught my eye&#8230; &#8220;whatPAINTBALLgear?&#8221; and &#8220;Sand Sports&#8221; magazines!&#8230; incredible stuff! just absorbing the actual terminology of parts and pieces!&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>for paintball, there&#8217;s the &#8220;marker&#8221; (main body of the gun), the &#8220;loader&#8221; (a top-feeding ellipsoid container which can store up to 200 balls), and the bottom-attached &#8220;bottle&#8221; (which provides the tank-pressurized air)&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p8ntballer.com\/update_images\/24082006\/fp_quest.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paintball-shop.ch\/media\/products\/komplett_ausr__stung_shop.jpg\">\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>sand\/dune buggies are also referred to as &#8220;sand rails&#8221; (for the rail frame) or &#8220;sand cars&#8221;, etc&#8230; i&#8217;ll need to remove the &#8220;glove compartment&#8221; in my fic, since hardly any buggies display one&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotrailssandcars.com\/SandCars\/4_seat2.jpg\">\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>so now i&#8217;ll have to go back and update\/tweak my story a bit to make it more vivid and real for myself&#8230; which is another thing that makes this fun ;)))\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;whatPAINTBALLgear?&#8221; (2006) magazine &#8220;Sand Sports&#8221; (July\/Aug 2006) magazine post 391 ~ ah, yes, the benefits of writing ;) in the past, when the writer&#8217;s bug bit me and i stuck with it, occasionally, i&#8217;d reach a level of inspiration (or obsession, lol) where i&#8217;d research stuff i never planned&#8230; in past fics, i&#8217;ve researched network &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/09\/10\/post-391-benefits-of-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}