{"id":380,"date":"2008-05-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-05-20T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T04:01:00","slug":"book-writing-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Book writing progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried working on my novels today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Current word count for <em>Simmion&#8217;s Show<\/em>: 4,200<br \/>Current word count for <em>The Game of Gynwig<\/em>: 41,700<\/p>\n<p>I probably blogged about this before, but <em>Simmion&#8217;s Show<\/em> is about a kid who exchanges years of his life for the ability to do real magic, which he uses to become a famous illusionist.  The story is completely planned out, with 31 scenes, though that will probably change as I continue writing.  I&#8217;m on scene #7 right now.  (So I guess it will technically be a novella or something when finished.)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Game of Gynwig<\/em> rough draft is already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardwalk.com\/gynwig\">available for reading<\/a>, or at least what I have written of it thus far.  I had that planned out as well with over 100 scenes, but I completely went off course while writing.  I have some different plans in my head, but I&#8217;m unsure where exactly everything will end up.  I only have up to chapter 8 posted, but I have 5 or 6 more written, so I&#8217;ll probably try to post those tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Writing is hard and lonely and boring&#8230; I hope I have some time to do some tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I also worked on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardwalk.com\/OrchestrationChallenges\">Orchestration Challenge<\/a> entry&#8230; it&#8217;s sounding very nice, if I do say so myself&#8230; which I do.  I haven&#8217;t had time to enter one of them in a while, so I love being able to get back into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried working on my novels today&#8230; Current word count for Simmion&#8217;s Show: 4,200Current word count for The Game of Gynwig: 41,700 I probably blogged about this before, but Simmion&#8217;s Show is about a kid who exchanges years of his life for the ability to do real magic, which he [&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-68","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}