{"id":204,"date":"2011-10-27T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-10-27T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T23:19:43","slug":"working-up-to-working-on-something-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Working up to working on something&#8230; honest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing mental ping-pong with Dean these past several weeks regarding the second part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=201\" title=\"The Book in All Its Formats...\"><em>Methuselah&#8217;s Daughter<\/em><\/a> series, but really the issue is me getting down to the work of writing. Excuses are multiple and quite lame because I really do have a very, very good idea how this should all unfold and where it will go. I even have specific plot points very firmly in place, but i come down to my office, sit at the computer&#8230; and stare at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to revive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3500years.com\" title=\"Methuselah's Daughter Blog\">Zsallia&#8217;s blog<\/a> for a while. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where she (the character) doesn&#8217;t talk to me anymore and that makes writing her story difficult. She used to be so damned annoying, like a voice in my head telling me to get to it because she had things she wanted to say, but back then she was a little amorphous and mysterious. There is no more mystery about her for me and I think that&#8217;s kind of pissed her off so she&#8217;s not talking to me. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know how this sounds, but it&#8217;s just a way I had of fleshing out her part in everything. We would talk, we would argue and I&#8217;d throw things at Dean and she&#8217;d get mad at him so I&#8217;d get mad at him&#8230; it was all very crazy and lots of fun even when I hated it. I think I&#8217;m almost afraid to revisit her now, afraid of her disapproval.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid, I know, but there it is. Still, I guess this is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing mental ping-pong with Dean these past several weeks regarding the second part of the Methuselah&#8217;s Daughter series, but really the issue is me getting down to the work of writing. Excuses are multiple and quite lame because I really do have a very, very good idea how this should all unfold and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-novel","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}