{"id":1301,"date":"2011-08-13T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-08-13T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:51:53","slug":"another-milestone-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Another Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with finding a major blooper in Book IV when I went back to it after page proofs….I’m now at 125,000+ words.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As mentioned back when (Oath<\/em> or Kings<\/em>, can’t now recall which) at some point Arcolin has to consider his succession.\u00a0\u00a0 The other dukes strongly prefer that he marry and get an heir, and that quickly; they never liked Kieri’s plan of not marrying again and letting the domain lapse.\u00a0\u00a0 The king feels the same way–he wants things settled.<\/p>\n

So the author has dangled multiple women in front of Arcolin in the past 24 hours–peers’ daughters and nieces, wealthy commoners’ daughters and nieces–and has had a fine time imagining what kind of girls are presented to an eligible bachelor peer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some don’t want him.\u00a0 Some want his rank, and could care less about him.\u00a0\u00a0 Some are afraid of him, or think he’s too old or too ugly (he is NOT ugly–Arcolin is a handsome man! insists his author.)\u00a0\u00a0 Some are afraid of being stuck way up north in what they’re sure are primitive surroundings full of soldiers, far from city life and lights.\u00a0 So far nobody’s popped out and announced that they think he’s fine, and the situation is fascinating and fun and they’d like to take on the challenge.<\/p>\n

Someone will, but not yet.<\/p>\n

Dorrin gave him some really good advice, but I’m not sure he’ll take it.\u00a0\u00a0 (Oh.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Is that a plot bomb knocking on the door?\u00a0 Gotta answer that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with finding a major blooper in Book IV when I went back to it after page proofs….I’m now at 125,000+ words.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As mentioned back when (Oath or Kings, can’t now recall which) at some point Arcolin has to consider his succession.\u00a0\u00a0 The other dukes strongly prefer that he marry and get an heir, and […]<\/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":[22,20,107],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}