{"id":1256,"date":"2010-07-21T00:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2010-07-21T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:28:05","slug":"a-little-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/1256","title":{"rendered":"A little rewrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little rewrite on Queen of the Isle, more or less to simplify the lead-in of the story a bit.\u00a0 When I read it again after letting it sit for a while, it felt too busy to me.\u00a0 I stripped out a walk through a city of Agreseus, putting them directly on the ship instead.\u00a0 I removed\u00a0a couple of other relatively unimportant character elements, and I&#8217;m now back up to where I originally left off with a far tighter opening to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a few minutes to blow off some steam, and then I&#8217;ll decide if I want to pick up there, or pick up where I left off on SOTM 17.\u00a0 Probably won&#8217;t get much done, because my butthead child took a four hour nap this afternoon at daycare that ended at 8:30.\u00a0 Getting him into bed is going to be a nightmare.\u00a0 Trying to concentrate and write with a wound-up child awake is hardly optimal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, off to goof around and chill out before I get back to the word processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little rewrite on Queen of the Isle, more or less to simplify the lead-in of the story a bit.\u00a0 When I read it again after letting it sit for a while, it felt too busy to me.\u00a0 I stripped out a walk through a city of Agreseus, putting them directly on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}