{"id":241,"date":"2016-01-09T00:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=241"},"modified":"2016-01-09T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T04:18:42","slug":"new-years-resolution-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolution results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, it&#8217;s been almost a week, and I&#8217;ve been pretty religious about writing every day. I&#8217;ve started 3 stories and done 2 scenes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m describing a lot more. I just finished reading\u00a0<em>Word Painting<\/em>, which I think is an excellent book on description. I should use simile and metaphor more often when describing (simile is <em>like<\/em>, while metaphor <em>is<\/em>). Hell, I need to describe and detail things more often as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of myself these last few tries at describing things. I&#8217;m going to pull out <em>War Mage<\/em> this weekend and start editing it. I know that it needs description. I just need to find the places for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking over the final edits for <em>Homecoming<\/em>. If I approve them, and I probably will, then we start the production.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my, scary time. Scary but exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, it&#8217;s been almost a week, and I&#8217;ve been pretty religious about writing every day. I&#8217;ve started 3 stories and done 2 scenes. I&#8217;m describing a lot more. I just finished reading\u00a0Word Painting, which I think is an excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=241\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}