{"id":862,"date":"2021-04-04T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=862"},"modified":"2021-04-04T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:42:43","slug":"a-rook-given-8000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Rook Given&#8221; &#8211; 8000 words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My newest novel is tentatively titled &#8220;A Rook Given&#8221;. It&#8217;s about a magician who makes too many familiars and God is jealous. So God sends one of his angels to destroy the magician and his familiars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m already up to 8000 words with it. My plotting is out to three chapters so far, and I&#8217;ve written two. I do have the overarching plot already written out. I decided to use a notebook to keep track of all my ideas, and then transfer them to Scrivener 3&#8217;s index cards. Scrivener 3 has a way of keeping track multiple POVs by coloring the index cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is I now have disability starting July 1. No more worrying about whether work cares if I write or not. No more worrying about whether I have a job (I don&#8217;t have a job to go back to&#8211;I was notified last week). Just two more months of TDI (six weeks, actually) and then I&#8217;m on the dole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My newest novel is tentatively titled &#8220;A Rook Given&#8221;. It&#8217;s about a magician who makes too many familiars and God is jealous. So God sends one of his angels to destroy the magician and his familiars. I&#8217;m already up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=862\">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":[28,4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-rook-given","category-inspiration","category-methods-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}