{"id":1994,"date":"2013-10-30T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2013-10-30T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:49:40","slug":"two-down-one-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Two Down, One Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with one story accepted by its anthology, another now with the editor who might or might not choose it&#8230;two things remain, one of them a story.\u00a0 One is an invitation to write a story for an anthology series where a Paksworld story <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> fit, and the other is the problematic Paksworld story I thought didn&#8217;t fit the second anthology invitation.\u00a0\u00a0 But I&#8217;m withholding that for now, because if Editor doesn&#8217;t like Story B, maybe he&#8217;ll like Story A and I was wrong about it being problematic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It does have way more obviously-fantasy stuff in it.\u00a0 <!--more-->For now, I&#8217;m concentrating on the Requiem Mass music (still gluing those hole reinforcers onto the torn pages) and trying to move my brain&#8217;s settings from Paksworld to the other anthology&#8217;s requirements.\u00a0 So far, the switches on the track junction are being very, very stiff.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lot more short fiction than I usually write in a year, all done in a relatively few months.\u00a0 I will try to keep pushing on it, though, until something comes clear in the book situation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (In background, I&#8217;m trying to get the start of\u00a0 <em>something<\/em> that could be a book or several, and all the starts have gone mushy far too soon to be confident with them.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m really disappointed in GSgt Tran, who seemed so full of impulsion (in the equestrian sense) but who came to a complete dead stop in the middle of a road with sheep on one side and girls picking berries on the other.\u00a0\u00a0 No, Tran, I shouted at her.\u00a0\u00a0 Keep going.\u00a0 What&#8217;s over that rise?\u00a0\u00a0 But there she is, immobile in her vehicle, hands on controls but not moving.\u00a0 I lost the live feed somehow.)<\/p>\n<p>After All Saints, I should be able to scare up a snippet for you, but not today.\u00a0 Today is a fast-moving blur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with one story accepted by its anthology, another now with the editor who might or might not choose it&#8230;two things remain, one of them a story.\u00a0 One is an invitation to write a story for an anthology series where a Paksworld story won&#8217;t fit, and the other is the problematic Paksworld story I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}