{"id":5490,"date":"2011-11-26T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2011-11-26T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T01:10:22","slug":"no-longer-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/no-longer-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to have a line in my bio that said I was “waiting for Conde Nast to call.” Well, that has happened, in a few different ways over the past few years, though please don’t think I was just sitting at home wishing, I actually did some things that caused it to happen. Anyway, it happened again<\/em> recently, more in the original way I’d hoped for and now, I’m a regular contributor to Conde Nast Traveler’s The Daily Traveler.<\/p>\n

I’m essentially writing postcards — a photo plus a detailed caption that’s kind of a micro-story of 100 words. It’s a gig that was designed especially for me and combines two things I love, photography and pithy remarks. It’s also hugely challenging, the limited word count makes me choose every single letter with extreme care, but so far, I’m enjoying it tremendously. I hope you’ll check out what I do there and, if you like it, leave a comment saying so. If you’d like to know more, here’s a Q&A<\/a>. And here are my first<\/a> and second<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n

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I used to have a line in my bio that said I was “waiting for Conde Nast to call.” Well, that has happened, in a few different ways over the past few years, though please don’t think I was just sitting at home wishing, I actually did some things that caused it to happen. Anyway, … <\/p>\n


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