{"id":2125,"date":"2012-07-31T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2012-07-31T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:22:08","slug":"still-sailing-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2125","title":{"rendered":"Still sailing along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of line tweaking last night, inserting little bits of the larger elements I needed to add to Beauty, but the larger section I wrote, telling about her inspiration to become a doctor, felt tacked on to where I had it.<\/p>\n<p>Went back and read through things today, and ended up putting it back in with a few modifications much earlier in the story.\u00a0 Really just have a couple more things to connect, and then there are some spots I wanted to polish&amp;jazz a little that weren&#8217;t part of the first read.<\/p>\n<p>Still aiming for the weekend for a completion of the new draft.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to clock in a little over 18k words.<\/p>\n<p>Dashed off a quick essay last night about overzealous fans that I submitted to Lit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only 1200 words and just something I felt like writing, even though I&#8217;ve been trying to get the same point across on Lit&#8217;s forum for ages now.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe with a wider net, it will actually catch up a few people.\u00a0 It will go on the &#8220;Latest Releases&#8221; but I otherwise won&#8217;t announce it on the mailing list, or make much of a hubaboo about it.<\/p>\n<p>Been musing the final chapter of Lowborn while I was at work.\u00a0 I&#8217;m steadily tweaking it and hearing the characters talking in my head, so when I finish out the edit on Beauty, I should be ready to charge forward on it.\u00a0 Ditto for SOTM 19.<\/p>\n<p>Back to looking at a section where I think some of the missing pieces will fit in Beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of line tweaking last night, inserting little bits of the larger elements I needed to add to Beauty, but the larger section I wrote, telling about her inspiration to become a doctor, felt tacked on to where I had it. Went back and read through things today, and ended up putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[32,13,29,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}