{"id":772,"date":"2019-09-08T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=772"},"modified":"2019-09-08T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:48:32","slug":"back-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Back in the saddle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was in the hospital for two weeks due to a mental health issue, and realized while I was there that I missed writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was into the game, and work, and other things known as Life, that I didn&#8217;t want to write. I didn&#8217;t have time or the energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when I got out of the hospital, I let my publisher know that I was going to write something. But I wanted to write a different genre, something that I hadn&#8217;t done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While cleaning cat puke off a notebook, I realized that this notebook had my notes from a hard science fiction novel I had written in my 20&#8217;s.  It was very similar to <em>Dune <\/em>in that it had to do with an alien race finding a mythical person to lead them.  However, it took place on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t written hard sci-fi since then and wondered &#8220;Why not?&#8221; My plan is to write the first chapter, present it to the publisher with a very rough outline of the rest of the book, and see what he thinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the hospital for two weeks due to a mental health issue, and realized while I was there that I missed writing. I was into the game, and work, and other things known as Life, that I didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=772\">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-772","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\/772","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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}