{"id":228,"date":"2012-09-01T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-09-01T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:36:03","slug":"new-story-out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"New story out of the blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really &#8212; but close. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had the idea for a while, based upon the title, but never could find the right way to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I found it.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling with the third contest story, so I decided to write this one instead. \u00a0I&#8217;m more or less on the last couple of scenes, so it will probably be done by tomorrow, edited, and into the queue for a release by Thursday or Friday next week. \u00a0As soon as it posts at Lit, I&#8217;ll add it to Lush and SOL.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a preference for Lit, by the way. \u00a0It just has the longest lead time for approval, and I can more or less assume that Lush and SOL will post anything within 24 hours, so new, non-contest stories post on all three sites the same day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Bet Your Bottom&#8221; and I imagine you can guess what category it will be in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably add &#8220;And I&#8217;ll Get a Pole&#8221; to Storiesonline and Lushstories tonight, so it will probably be out by morning.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if &#8220;Water Lilly&#8221; will come together for me in time for the contest a little later. \u00a0Every start I&#8217;ve tried has been too slow. \u00a0Lots of setup I need to get in there to establish the two characters, in order for the story to work, but I can&#8217;t get the right mix of action and exposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really &#8212; but close. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had the idea for a while, based upon the title, but never could find the right way to make it work. Last night, I found it. Struggling with the third contest story, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[47,10,17,19,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkniciad.com\/rr-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}