{"id":622,"date":"2008-05-09T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:49:51","slug":"my-creative-project-for-the-past-few-days-minific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/my-creative-project-for-the-past-few-days-minific\/","title":{"rendered":"My creative project for the past few days: Minific!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minific.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minific.googlepages.com\/minific.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t crafted a drawing or written much fiction lately. Instead, I&#8217;ve been working on another creative endeavor: <a href=\"http:\/\/minific.com\">Minific<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minific <em>physically<\/em> is nothing more than a pretty front-end for the Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twemes.com\">tweme<\/a> #<a href=\"http:\/\/twemes.com\/minific\">minific<\/a>. <em>Conceptually<\/em>, it&#8217;s much more. It&#8217;s a store house for bursts of creative insight. A repository for a flash of fiction. An ever-changing, always interesting cascade of inventive ideas and original voices.<\/p>\n<p>Who has contributed since it&#8217;s inception? (besides myself, of course). So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kplawver\">Kevin Lawver<\/a>, the creator of the phenomenal <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\">Ficlets<\/a> (from which I drew a majority of the inspiration for assembling Minific), as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joeymanley\">Joey Manley<\/a>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/moderntales.com\">Modern Tales<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/webcomicsnation.com\">Webcomics Nation<\/a>, and co-conspirator for Josh Roberts&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/comicspace.com\">ComicSpace<\/a>. But honestly, I&#8217;m not so interested in <em>who<\/em> is contributing as I am in <em>what<\/em> is being written. What scant few bursts  are already available are brilliant in their simplicity, and I eagerly look forward to seeing more posted in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a Twitter account, and a 131-character creative thought to spare, might I suggest you head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/minific.com\">Minific<\/a> and give it a shot? It&#8217;s probably easier to do that you could have possibly imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t crafted a drawing or written much fiction lately. Instead, I&#8217;ve been working on another creative endeavor: Minific. Minific physically is nothing more than a pretty front-end for the Twitter tweme #minific. Conceptually, it&#8217;s much more. It&#8217;s a store house for bursts of creative insight. A repository for a flash of fiction. An ever-changing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[289,92,569,364,465,714],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-happenings","tag-internet","tag-minific","tag-social-networking","tag-twitter","tag-writing","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}