{"id":2509,"date":"2013-08-12T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2013-08-12T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:41:22","slug":"and-the-story-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2509","title":{"rendered":"And the story is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m down to the last scene and happy with what&#8217;s come before ( though there&#8217;s still the editing process to go ) I finally feel safe revealing what I&#8217;ve been working on for the Summer Lovin&#8217; contest at Lit.<\/p>\n<p>The next story in the Magic of the Wood series will be &#8220;Friend of the Wood&#8221; and features Terra, who is Dan and Brooke&#8217;s daughter.\u00a0 She has a twin sister named Ella and a younger brother named Dale who will also have supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d originally planned to use these characters for Earth Day this year, but the idea I had just wouldn&#8217;t come together.\u00a0 The characters are the same other than a couple of quirks, and there&#8217;s a general theme that carried over, but pretty much everything else about the summer version of the story is different.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said at the beginning, I&#8217;m working on the final scene of the story now.\u00a0 That means that I&#8217;ll have plenty of time to pass it through Mistress Lynn ( who has first-read most of the series for me ) if she has time, and get it to Roust for final editing before posting.\u00a0 There&#8217;s even a chance I&#8217;ll be able to do all that and still have it ready for posting during the first week of the contest!\u00a0 W00T!<\/p>\n<p>I will probably aim for Thursday night rather than the 20th start date.\u00a0 I always have a lot better luck with stories that post just before the weekend than at any other time.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.\u00a0 Just wanted to reveal it, since I&#8217;ve been hinting around the edges of it for a while now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had so many stories in this series sputter out on me that I didn&#8217;t want to tease another that never materialized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m down to the last scene and happy with what&#8217;s come before ( though there&#8217;s still the editing process to go ) I finally feel safe revealing what I&#8217;ve been working on for the Summer Lovin&#8217; contest at Lit. The next story in the Magic of the Wood series will be &#8220;Friend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[32,13,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509"}],"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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}