{"id":994,"date":"2011-08-02T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=994"},"modified":"2011-08-02T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:52:23","slug":"working-on-yet-another-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Working on yet another new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I have yet to finish writing a novel; I keep starting new stories instead of finishing old ones.  But I don&#8217;t care; when the feeling of <em>I-must-write-this<\/em> is strong enough, I must obey.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing a new fantasy book last week.  I&#8217;m not going to call it a novel, because it will more likely be novella length, probably between 35,000 and 50,000 words.  It&#8217;s a middle grade or YA book (the main character is currently twelve years old, though I&#8217;m not sure if that will change or not).  The story is completely planned out, but rather simple compared to the previous story I was working on, <em>Atarius Destory This World<\/em>.  The story is based on a bunch of elements from a bunch of other stories I&#8217;ve been plotting in the back of my mind for quite a few years.  All the elements just sort of collapsed together in my mind, like gravity forming a star in a nebula.  (What a great simile!)<\/p>\n<p>The story is about the last sorcerer in the world, a twelve year old who hardly understands how to use his powers, who must save a kingdom from an ugly invasion.  It will hopefully be the beginning of a series, which is thinly planned out.  <\/p>\n<p>Right now my wordcount is at around 5,500 words.  Though I&#8217;m still a slow writer, I will say that this is so far the easiest story I&#8217;ve worked on, perhaps because so many of the elements have been floating around in my mind for so long.  We&#8217;ll see how long it lasts&#8230; but for now it&#8217;s quite exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I have yet to finish writing a novel; I keep starting new stories instead of finishing old ones. But I don&#8217;t care; when the feeling of I-must-write-this is strong enough, I must obey. I started writing a new fantasy book last week. I&#8217;m not going to call it [&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":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-g2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}