{"id":533,"date":"2009-12-29T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-12-29T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:01:29","slug":"around-the-final-turn-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Around the final turn (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today,\u00a0 I faced the need for another chapter.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, another chapter must be included.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I think the previous chapter needs to be split (for story-logical reasons) so that its latter part becomes the first part of the new chapter (which presently rejoices in the designation of Chap-18a.)\u00a0\u00a0 Some research in <em>Oath of Gold<\/em> reminded me of specific persons the right age to know the relevant bits of history who were still alive then&#8230;and thus should still be alive now and able to recall said bits.<!--more-->Some 1400+ words in the new chapter accomplished today, and I&#8217;m planning to make it to 2000 before I quit for the night.\u00a0\u00a0 That should just about complete the essential transfers of information on the human side.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m up for another elf-human confrontation tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 A couple more of those have to occur to complete the set up and feathering in.\u00a0 I think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful to Richard for giving me some dark chocolate with espresso beans for Christmas, and for remembering that Smetana&#8217;s <em>The Bartered Bride <\/em>is good working music for this group of books (it&#8217;s not the only thing, but Beethoven and Schubert, which had worked on other parts, weren&#8217;t working on this.)\u00a0 With any luck, and despite the farrier&#8217;s visit tomorrow, I should be able to wind this up tomorrow by midnight.\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0 I want Thursday &amp; Friday for polishing and re=linking everything,\u00a0 with Saturday and Sunday as &#8220;emergency overrun&#8221; days, so I can ship it off to Editor on the weekend, right before she comes back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today,\u00a0 I faced the need for another chapter.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, another chapter must be included.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I think the previous chapter needs to be split (for story-logical reasons) so that its latter part becomes the first part of the new chapter (which presently rejoices in the designation of Chap-18a.)\u00a0\u00a0 Some research in Oath of Gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5],"tags":[106,20,51,107],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}