{"id":2310,"date":"2014-09-18T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2014-09-18T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:29:15","slug":"things-change-things-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2310","title":{"rendered":"Things Change, Things Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

The short fiction collection has a new title:\u00a0 Deeds of Honor<\/strong>.\u00a0 Remember how I said the cover design for the short fiction collection was tentative?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was indeed, and that design has now vanished from mortal ken (well, not exactly…) and a new rough has been shipped out for work.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll see it when it’s done.\u00a0\u00a0 Some things will be the same, and some things won’t.\u00a0\u00a0 The stories are in the hands of those who will prepare them for the collection. \u00a0 I am alternately working on new fiction (not ready to talk about it yet) and the head-notes for the individual stories, which I should have done in another day or so (the new title has suggested changes in the head-notes.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Another change: I will be removing some of the early comments–enough to uncramp the host’s server allotment for us–and storing them in my own external hard drive. That process has just begun but will be slow because I’m trying not to lose any and still keep track of where I am. I’ve already goofed up once (only lost a few, I think.) ANYway. When I’ve copied a bunch of comments into my file, I will be deleting them from the blogsite. That will happen in batches of maybe 10 or so. At this time I’m planning to put each year’s comments in a separate file. Since I’m working back to front, I may get things out of order occasionally, but at least everything will be in the right year, and I can (given time) straighten it out later.<\/p>\n

The new fiction presently running includes the possibly long (or not) story about Cracolnya I’ve mentioned before, but it stalled about where (slightly longer than) the several novel-starts in the past year. A couple of short things are ambling along at their own pace (slow. Frustratingly slow.) And there’s the New Thing, which is still too new to discuss. Except to warn you than it’s not Paksworld-based.<\/p>\n

My vision problems are still not completely resolved, and it’s clear that they very likely won’t be. This is a nuisance, but once it becomes clear something is permanent and still annoying, it’s best to quit wasting energy on annoyance and figure out how to deal with it. That’s what I’m doing. It may mean slower writing, but it doesn’t mean quitting writing. And I’m lucky to have the vision I have, and (with this warning) time to accept that it’s probably going to get worse. If it doesn’t, hurray. <\/p>\n

Right now, and until further notice, the collection will contain “Point of Honor,” “The Legend of Falk’s Oath”, “Cross Purposes,” “The Legend of Torre’s Ride,” “A Parrion of Cooking,” “Vardan’s Tale,” “Those Who Walk in Darkness,” and “The Last Lesson.” Some of these appeared here, or elsewhere online, “Those Who Walk in Darkness” is on my website and was previously in an earlier collection, and “The Last Lesson” is the story I read at Dragon*Con this year. The pieces that were online before, here or elsewhere, have been tweaked a bit. “Point of Honor” is an Arvid story. “Cross Purposes” is King Torfinn and his daughter Elis. Farin Cook is center stage in “A Parrion of Cooking,” and I’m sure you remember Sgt.Vardan from the “12 Days of Christmas” posts. “The Last Lesson” shows Beclan Mahieran Verrakai in old age. There’s a subtle but definite connection between “The Last Lesson” and “Those Who Walk in Darkness.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short fiction collection has a new title:\u00a0 Deeds of Honor.\u00a0 Remember how I said the cover design for the short fiction collection was tentative?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was indeed, and that design has now vanished from mortal ken (well, not exactly…) and a new rough has been shipped out for work.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll see it when it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,4,84,5],"tags":[22,106,107],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-contents","category-e-books","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-contents","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"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=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}