{"id":602,"date":"2010-02-08T19:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:20:22","slug":"a-little-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"A Little Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Editor asked me to please write some posts for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvudu.com\/\">Suvudu.com <\/a>blogsite.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sure, I said, and began fiddling, but was interrupted by a needed trip to an optician&#8217;s shop to order new glasses.\u00a0 This afternoon, Editor asked me if I had any short fiction related to the new book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe something had been cut?\u00a0 Maybe I could write a short-short?\u00a0\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 And I thought &#8220;O waily waily woe, I&#8217;m trying to write an essay (that wasn&#8217;t working well yet) and anyway I&#8217;m not good at short-shorts.&#8221;\u00a0 (Yes, even experienced writers have self-defeating moments.)<\/p>\n<p>And even as I thought that&#8230;up popped a notion of what might work.\u00a0 <em>Bing!<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In less than an hour and a half (I think&#8211;when I&#8217;m writing that fast I&#8217;m not watching the clock, but I think&#8230;)\u00a0\u00a0 I had a completed 1100 word short-short about a character most of you like: Arvid Semminson.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I tinkered and smoothed and shifted things around to read more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, fast as that was, it was after work hours in NYC, so I haven&#8217;t had a response from Editor yet.\u00a0\u00a0 But she&#8217;ll see it tomorrow, and when\/if it goes up, I&#8217;ll definitely let you know.\u00a0 If Editor doesn&#8217;t like it, I might post it here or on the website.\u00a0 It fits neatly between the last time you saw him in <em>Oath of Gold <\/em>and the first time you&#8217;ll see him in <em>Kings of the North<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Added to the work I did on Book III before the request for an essay came in, it puts me up to about 1500 fiction words for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Editor asked me to please write some posts for the Suvudu.com blogsite.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sure, I said, and began fiddling, but was interrupted by a needed trip to an optician&#8217;s shop to order new glasses.\u00a0 This afternoon, Editor asked me if I had any short fiction related to the new book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe something had been [&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":[22,112,39,107],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-story","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}