{"id":692,"date":"2019-01-27T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=692"},"modified":"2019-01-27T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:39:46","slug":"buckling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Buckling down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Air in the can, I&#8217;m supposed to concentrate on <em>Grimaulkin Collected<\/em>. The key here is &#8220;supposed to&#8221;. I will admit that this week I hardly wrote much, mostly because I was recovering from surgery. I had expected to write every day, but couldn&#8217;t seem to bring myself to the keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to get <em>Grimaulkin Collected <\/em>completed by April. If i write a scene a day, I can do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;ve read:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Writing the Mystery.<\/em><br>Tell me something i don&#8217;t already know. If you read enough mysteries, you don&#8217;t need this book. <br><br><em>Plot in 8 Parts<\/em><br>Not unlike Holly Lisle, who believes that every scene is a mini-story, this book tells you how to come up with plot points in 8 sections. I stopped after reading the second plot point, because it wasn&#8217;t too unlike The Hero&#8217;s Journey.<br><br><em>Flash! Writing the very short story<\/em><br>Fun stuff at first. I&#8217;m still reading and doing the prompts. They&#8217;re fast and easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Air in the can, I&#8217;m supposed to concentrate on Grimaulkin Collected. The key here is &#8220;supposed to&#8221;. I will admit that this week I hardly wrote much, mostly because I was recovering from surgery. I had expected to write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=692\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}