{"id":2173,"date":"2012-08-26T20:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2012-08-26T20:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:20:17","slug":"couple-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2173","title":{"rendered":"Couple of things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, thanks to everyone who read, voted, commented, favorited, and emailed on Second Chance.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to come close to 1500 votes, and most likely will pass 100k views.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know I said that the ending of Lowborn was already written, but it turns out I was wrong *laugh*\u00a0 Once I actually started putting it on paper, something didn&#8217;t feel quite right.\u00a0 I went back and read through the whole story again, and there was something off.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m doing a little musing to try to fix a\u00a0point or two, either by switching up the initiation of the ending, or by tweaking a couple of things in earlier chapters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve actually put down the first little bit of SOTM 19 on paper, where it&#8217;s all been in museland previously.\u00a0 What&#8217;s been holding me back on that one for the most part is deciding what should be the opening scene, and I believe I have it.<\/p>\n<p>Not much wordage yet, but it&#8217;s a concrete step toward getting it out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also working on that multi-part story as Les.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing it will be five chapters, and I&#8217;m over the halfway mark on chapter 3.<\/p>\n<p>Musing the second of that website-only Devan trilogy as well.\u00a0 Likewise, I&#8217;m doing some of the basic framework for the &#8220;Shorts&#8221; page that will house them.<\/p>\n<p>Been doing a lot of beta reading lately, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s kept me away from my own pen as much as anything.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve said before, it&#8217;s important to me to do that when another author asks, because it develops a pool of people I can ask to do the same for me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s proved a very valuable resource in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Just what&#8217;s in my head at the moment.\u00a0 Hope to be able to come back with wordage updates on Lowborn, SOTM, or Jackin&#8217; Jill ( that new Les story ) soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, thanks to everyone who read, voted, commented, favorited, and emailed on Second Chance.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to come close to 1500 votes, and most likely will pass 100k views. Now, I know I said that the ending of Lowborn was already written, but it turns out I was wrong *laugh*\u00a0 Once I actually started 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"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=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}