{"id":1559,"date":"2011-04-17T01:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2011-04-17T01:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T05:08:47","slug":"it-comes-from-the-strangest-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/1559","title":{"rendered":"It comes from the strangest places&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the opening of the first scene of Lowborn 06 written, going with the new angle I&#8217;d come up with, and ran headlong into a snag.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been puzzling over it all day long, trying to figure out how to shelter my protags from a storm, while leaving the baddies exposed ( necessary to get me where I need to be )\u00a0 Nothing was coming to me, so I went back to that content read and made it to the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I did the tracking for the Earth Day contest.\u00a0 Made my post in the thread at Lit, giving the overall details.\u00a0 Answered a few PMs and checked the scores on my latest stories.<\/p>\n<p>I finally went back a minute or two ago, and started thinking about it again.\u00a0 It hit me out of the blue only a few seconds later.\u00a0 The perfect solution is actually inspired by &#8220;To Catch a Merchant Princess&#8221; *laugh*<\/p>\n<p>Completely different circumstances, but a set piece I utilized in that story serves my purposes <em>perfectly<\/em>.\u00a0 I even considered doing a little tie-in, as they happen in the same general time frame, but while the set piece will be very similar, the one in MP is near a forest, and the one here will be in an endless sea of prairie grass on the Great Plains of my world.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was just so tickled that I had to come crow *laugh*\u00a0 I&#8217;m off to actually write the thing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the opening of the first scene of Lowborn 06 written, going with the new angle I&#8217;d come up with, and ran headlong into a snag. I&#8217;ve been puzzling over it all day long, trying to figure out how to shelter my protags from a storm, while leaving the baddies exposed ( necessary to [&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\/1559"}],"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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}