{"id":251,"date":"2008-01-16T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:57:02","slug":"82732-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/82732-words\/","title":{"rendered":"82,732 Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the first draft of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2007\/12\/viiiictory.html\">new novel<\/a> in two and a half months.<\/p>\n<p>And immediately copied it to my USB key:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/frost-moon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/frost-moon.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I have started many novels and written many short stories, Frost Moon is only the second novel I&#8217;ve managed to complete &#8212; thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">Nanowrimo<\/a>.  The first was a much longer epic science fiction novel, <i>homo centauris<\/i>, that I wrote over fifteen years ago (has it been that long?) but which I never managed to get published.  I worked on several others since then, but the closest to completion is an earlier Nanowrimo entry, tentatively titled <i>Deliverance<\/i>, set in the same universe, which I plan to finish while my alpha readers tackle <i>Frost Moon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Whew.  I feel like celebrating &#8212; but why do I not feel like taking a break?<br \/>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the first draft of a new novel in two and a half months. And immediately copied it to my USB key: While I have started many novels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1,202],"tags":[6,4,91],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}