{"id":176,"date":"2015-05-18T20:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T00:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T00:08:02","slug":"distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up to 20K transcribed, probably another 5K written in longhand for\u00a0War Mage. \u00a0I&#8217;m testing out my book cover person with Grim and Scott from Champions.<\/p>\n<p>I have to do a pinterest board for War Mage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/warwriter\/grimaulkin\/\">Here&#8217;s <\/a>Grim&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote for three hours this whole weekend &#8211; yes, I know that&#8217;s not much, considering I wrote a whole weekend at first. \u00a0I tried to read <em>Gentlemen Bastards<\/em> to at least finish it &#8211; I&#8217;ve got about 100 pages to go &#8211; and then realized that my right eye decided to pull a double-vision on me, in addition to me being nearsighted and I can&#8217;t read normal 10 point font. \u00a0So I can&#8217;t see the words, they&#8217;re doubled (black on top, gray on the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>That, along with a very scary episode in which an ambulance had to take me to the hospital in the early morning hours last week, kind of put a damper on my writing.<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up mindlessly gaming, looking through builds and trying them out. \u00a0I&#8217;ve still been writing daily, but not as many words. \u00a0I need to get back into it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just afraid that after I do this plot point, I don&#8217;t have another plot point to go to until the hero meets his nemesis (at least for this book). \u00a0And then the book ends, because I don&#8217;t know what to put my hero through after that.<\/p>\n<p>Pantsing is tough in that way. \u00a0It&#8217;s always scary to keep jumping from rooftop to rooftop, hoping you can get the other side, or at least land safely. \u00a0Maybe some of my plot cards\/cubes\/apps can give me some ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up to 20K transcribed, probably another 5K written in longhand for\u00a0War Mage. \u00a0I&#8217;m testing out my book cover person with Grim and Scott from Champions. I have to do a pinterest board for War Mage. Here&#8217;s Grim&#8217;s. I wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-war-mage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}