{"id":173,"date":"2008-04-20T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=173"},"modified":"2011-01-29T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T23:00:19","slug":"a-word-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"A word, here and there\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, during a fever induced state of insomnia unlike any other, I managed to get in about 400 words. That is the first 400 words in a very long time. It&#8217;s a start back, at any rate.<\/p>\n<p>My problem is this. I see the story, I have the protagonist, the antagonist, the secondary characters, the setting, the secondary settings, the plot, the secondary plot and the title. I have it all worked out in my head (first time for everything) as at the very least, a novella.  Now that I have all that, though&#8230; it&#8217;s like its saying &#8220;<em>That&#8217;s it for me, folks, I&#8217;m done!<\/em>&#8220;. I had this problem when I was writing Samhain&#8217;s Call &#8211; and that took me a good three and a half years to write. I&#8217;d rather not take that long with this one.<\/p>\n<p>At least this time I&#8217;m not writing from direct experience.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/marketscoops.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>DL Snell<\/strong><\/a> is waiting patiently for our interview swap-outs. I&#8217;m doing a Market Scoop on LBF Books for him, and he&#8217;s going to be doing an interview with me for Apex. I am two days behind on getting them to him, so I&#8217;m going to go and do that&#8230; before I have to rush off to a bridal shower for my cousin. My cousin, who is young enough that I remember her first day of Kindergarten; she started the same day, in the same class as my younger brother, Jarrett (aka DobHailen). 21 is awfully young to be thinking marriage, but they&#8217;ve been together forever&#8230; and if I say anything more, I&#8217;ll have to endure the cries of &#8220;pot meet kettle&#8221;. I was in that position myself 15 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, during a fever induced state of insomnia unlike any other, I managed to get in about 400 words. That is the first 400 words in a very long time. It&#8217;s a start back, at any rate.<br \/>\nMy problem is this. I see the story, I have the protagonist, the antagonist, the secondary characters, the setting, the secondary settings, the plot, the secondary plot and the title. I have it all worked out in my head (first time for everything) as at the very least, a novella.  Now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-projects-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}