{"id":1514,"date":"2011-04-24T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2011-04-27T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T00:21:32","slug":"big-pipe-dream-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/big-pipe-dream-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Pipe Dream Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original plan was to magically write a book this past winter, magically get it published and to be paperback bound in time for the Missouri Fox Trotter World\u00a0Celebration<\/a>.\u00a0 It would also hit the shelves and earn me a million dollars, force me to retire,\u00a0 write more books, build a million dollar indoor arena and to hire Tony and Jenny Vaught to be my personal horse trainers.<\/p>\n

I told you that the book started taking over and demanding to write its self. Then I learned that it actually takes time to write all these words, even though I have many of the story outlines in my blog.<\/p>\n

Then I became rudderless.\u00a0 I had no idea where the book was going, what central theme it would have and what would be the ending.<\/p>\n

I have\u00a0a son,\u00a0Nathan Granner<\/a>,\u00a0who has been a professional singer for many years.\u00a0 He’s had to find his way out in the world to market himself.\u00a0 Last winter he was awarded a Florida three month free housing grant so that he could write an opera.\u00a0 Other artists were there also. Some of them were authors.\u00a0 They became close friends. In Kansas City, he started teaching a course called Artist Inc.<\/p>\n

So we had a meeting in an upscale bar that did not serve something so simple as rum and coke. I grew up on rum and cokes (in college)! I was forced to drink floozy drinks. We chatted about my book.<\/p>\n

Near the end, he determined that I needed to figure out what the final chapter was to be before I could finish writing the book.\u00a0 “Once you know what the end chapter is, the middle parts of the book will be easier.\u00a0 You’ll have a path.\u00a0 It will take you a long time to figure out the end, but you will!”\u00a0 I wobbled out of the floozy bar and have pondered since then.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My son also at one point called me an artist.<\/p>\n

I am an artist!\u00a0 What a concept!<\/p>\n

I have now figured out the end chapter and am just about to start writing it.<\/p>\n

I figure maybe around Celebration 2012, my big rich author dream will come true.\u00a0 Make friends with me now, while I’m poor!\u00a0 Get your Missouri Fox Trotters ready to sell around spring of 2013! That’s when all the aging baby boomers will read the book and be ready to buy a fox trotter!<\/p>\n

Or, I can buy the winning lottery ticket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The original plan was to magically write a book this past winter, magically get it published and to be paperback bound in time for the Missouri Fox Trotter World\u00a0Celebration.\u00a0 It would also hit the shelves and earn me a million dollars, force me to retire,\u00a0 write more books, build a million dollar indoor arena and to hire Tony and Jenny Vaught to be my personal horse trainers. I told you that the book started taking over and demanding to write its self. Then I learned that it actually takes time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}