{"id":86,"date":"2009-01-12T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-01-12T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T19:28:29","slug":"nose-to-the-grindstone-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Nose to the Grindstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week did not go as planned, and produced only a little over 3000 words of progress, but today I&#8217;ve done my 2000 (2084, to be precise) and the total on the second book\u00a0 is now at 76,184.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on some fairly gnarly bits.\u00a0 Dorrin is still dealing with her family&#8217;s legacy of evil and their connection with Liart, the Lord of Torments (also called the Bloodlord.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some people don&#8217;t trust her.<\/p>\n<p>Not saying whose, right now, but there&#8217;s a set of royal regalia with its own personality and its own ambitions.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown&#8221; is true, especially if it talks to you even when you aren&#8217;t wearing it.<\/p>\n<p>I need to get the last tangles in the broadband connection worked out, so I&#8217;m not being distracted by that (or by A, B, C&#8230;.X,\u00a0 the other elements in my life that drag me away from the writing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week did not go as planned, and produced only a little over 3000 words of progress, but today I&#8217;ve done my 2000 (2084, to be precise) and the total on the second book\u00a0 is now at 76,184. I&#8217;m working on some fairly gnarly bits.\u00a0 Dorrin is still dealing with her family&#8217;s legacy of evil [&hellip;]<\/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":[20],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}