{"id":779,"date":"2008-04-20T22:59:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-10-30T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:00:58","slug":"painting-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/779","title":{"rendered":"Painting the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading back through some of my older one-shot stories recently, and something struck me.\u00a0 In tales like Ebon Genesis and Casting off Convention, I did a lot of painting the world around my characters that I simply haven&#8217;t been doing of late.\u00a0 I&#8217;m leaning too much on my characters, and it&#8217;s time to stop it!\u00a0 *laugh*<\/p>\n<p>I started working on this with the new Alicia story, and my editor noticed it immediately as he was working through the drafts without me bringing it up.\u00a0 I think you&#8217;re going to be very much pleased with this change when the first new stories hit with the pumped-up imagery.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing the same thing with Ch. 13 of SOTM.\u00a0 I&#8217;m about halfway done with that chapter, working in spurts and finding it just a little easier each time.<\/p>\n<p>Just an update so everybody knows I&#8217;m alive out here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading back through some of my older one-shot stories recently, and something struck me.\u00a0 In tales like Ebon Genesis and Casting off Convention, I did a lot of painting the world around my characters that I simply haven&#8217;t been doing of late.\u00a0 I&#8217;m leaning too much on my characters, and it&#8217;s time 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\/779"}],"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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}