{"id":667,"date":"2011-04-08T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:52:12","slug":"im-off-to-see-the-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"I’m Off to See the Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was writing about Twilight each week for SparkNotes<\/a>, three questions kept coming my way from readers: <\/p>\n

1. What will you write about after Twilight?
\n2. Will you write about Harry Potter?
\n3. If fire isn’t a gas, solid, or liquid does that mean it doesn’t exist?<\/p>\n

To answer all three questions, Blogging Harry Potter<\/a> has begun! (Fine, I can’t answer the third question. Shut up!)<\/p>\n

When I started Blogging Twilight, I never thought it would become as popular as it did. Every time I add a new Facebook friend or receive a note from a fan, I blush. It’s wonderful. But it also means I felt pressured to make Blogging Harry Potter just as good. <\/p>\n

The problem: I don’t even know what I did that made Blogging Twilight good. I’m like the kid who plays a fighting game, smashes a bunch of buttons and then some fantastic colorful maneuver happens on the screen. You ask the kid, “How did you do that,” and he just stares at you, shrugs, and asks how you got inside his house. <\/p>\n

I stared at the blank screen for a few hours not even sure how to begin. Making fun of the books, as I did with Twilight, won’t work because let’s face it, Harry Potter is pretty great. And yet no one would want to read me saying, “This book is soooo goooood!” every week for a year. Finding the right tone is important.<\/p>\n

Finally, I decided I was over thinking this, took a deep breath, and just began writing. I’m happy with the result, and something tells me that the articles will get better and I’ll have more fun as I read through the books. <\/p>\n

And so I’m here to announce Blogging Harry Potter<\/a> is up and running. I hope you like it. If you don’t, then you can look forward to my next assignment: Blogging the Alphabet. (I have some rather pointed remarks to make regarding the slutty letter H.)<\/p>\n