Book IV called me back today with a vengeance, and I’ve done the first substantial work since finishing the Great Race.\u00a0 Over 1500 words.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A plot-bomb of sorts that’s been burning a hole in my typing fingers since the fever went down.\u00a0\u00a0 However, it’s a major, MAJOR spoiler so I can’t talk about it.<\/p>\n
I have the distinct feeling that I’m going to be back “on book” from here on out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The gap in regular work–except when really sick–has not been entirely unproductive, because I’ve been thinking, making notes, thinking more, making more notes, etc.<\/p>\n
Linkages are forming…as they tend to once past the middle section of a long story arc.\u00a0\u00a0 Things that were still a total frustrating puzzle to me while writing Oath<\/em> and Kings<\/em> are finally, in IV, rising up to the surface enough that I can sortakinda know what’s going on.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still very rough, still things that may be wrong…but not everything’s wrong.<\/p>\n The wheels are turning, and if I don’t want to be left behind it’s time to get aboard for the rest of the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book IV called me back today with a vengeance, and I’ve done the first substantial work since finishing the Great Race.\u00a0 Over 1500 words.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A plot-bomb of sorts that’s been burning a hole in my typing fingers since the fever went down.\u00a0\u00a0 However, it’s a major, MAJOR spoiler so I can’t talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}