{"id":321,"date":"2007-09-06T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:24:00","slug":"still-writing-that-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Still writing that book&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still working on that novel I began back in November 2006&#8230; soon it will have been a year, and I&#8217;m not even half way done.  But, oh well, at least I haven&#8217;t given up.<\/p>\n<p>I got two books out of the library today, one called &#8220;Plot &#038; Structure&#8221; and one called &#8220;Character, Emotion &#038; Viewpoint&#8221;.  My goal with these books is not to study them really hard and apply everything they say to my novel, my hope is that I can read through a chapter or two before I begin writing just for some ideas and some inspiration&#8230; not the corny kind of spiritual inspiration, but the excited &#8220;I want to try that&#8221; inspiration, like when you see a behind-the-scenes look at the making of some movie or TV show and you say to yourself, &#8220;geez, anyone could do that kind of work, I want to try that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the books may very well give me some material to blather about!  Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still working on that novel I began back in November 2006&#8230; soon it will have been a year, and I&#8217;m not even half way done. But, oh well, at least I haven&#8217;t given up. I got two books out of the library today, one called &#8220;Plot &#038; Structure&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}