{"id":533,"date":"2018-03-25T14:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=533"},"modified":"2018-03-25T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:55:50","slug":"life-suckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Life suckage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up to 27K words in <em>Grimaulkin Redeemed<\/em>&#8211;almost half way there! About half-way. My goal is 60K words, but with my luck, the story will end between 50K and 60K.<\/p>\n<p>Life has been getting in the way recently. Suffice it to say I&#8217;ve had to scale back some things. One is the game, not because it&#8217;s a bad thing, but because I only have a finite amount of time during the week and weekends, and I&#8217;m trying to concentrate on writing and my hoarding issues here at home. I haven&#8217;t played the game in 3 weeks (one week was due to no electricity). I&#8217;m feeling guilty, but there was only one person I played with on that game. Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t seen him when I&#8217;ve checked in, either, so maybe he&#8217;s running into the same issue that I am&#8211;Life intrudes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capricorn&#8221; is finished and gone through its first editing pass. The as-yet-unnamed story tie-in for <em>Grimaulkin Redeemed<\/em> also went through its first pass and was just returned. The publisher and I are not in a hurry for that one, but the novels are what I&#8217;m being pushed to deliver. Gee, wonder why? (laugh here)<\/p>\n<p>I plan on trying to get a podcast out this week or next weekend, and it will be about this statement: &#8220;A bell isn&#8217;t a bell if it hasn&#8217;t been rung; a song isn&#8217;t a song if it hasn&#8217;t been sung.&#8221; This statement pisses me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up to 27K words in Grimaulkin Redeemed&#8211;almost half way there! About half-way. My goal is 60K words, but with my luck, the story will end between 50K and 60K. Life has been getting in the way recently. Suffice it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=533\">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":[16,15,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-of-the-zodiac-earth","category-dark-mystic-quill","category-grimaulkin","category-life-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}