{"id":325,"date":"2007-09-15T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=325"},"modified":"2007-09-15T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:22:00","slug":"book-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Book Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished writing [the rough draft of] Chapter 13 of <em>The Game of Gynwig<\/em>, my epic &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; fantasy novel.  I&#8217;m still not very far along; the addition of Chapter 13 puts the book at 37,000 words so far, so it&#8217;s still not even a novel yet.  By my last outline, there will be 60 chapters, but I&#8217;m sure that will change as my plans for the rest of the book continue to change chapter by chapter.  I find it&#8217;s much more exciting to write when I use the outline as a guide but start out each chapter as if I don&#8217;t know where the story will go&#8230; that way the story can still surprise me and it makes the actual writing less boring.  Unfortunately it means I have to redo my outline after every chapter.  Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished writing [the rough draft of] Chapter 13 of The Game of Gynwig, my epic &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; fantasy novel. I&#8217;m still not very far along; the addition of Chapter 13 puts the book at 37,000 words so far, so it&#8217;s still not even a novel yet. By my last [&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-5f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}