{"id":2629,"date":"2014-11-01T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T04:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:55:11","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/and-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And we&#8217;re off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20140907_152854-MOTION.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20140907_152854-MOTION.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"20140907_152854-MOTION.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Novel Writing Month is here again. For those who are just joining the party, it&#8217;s a challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November &#8211; and it&#8217;s also the event which finally broke through my creative barriers, helping me at last produce a complete publishable novel. I&#8217;ve done it eight times in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2002: DELIVERANCE (Frontiersmanship series #1, as yet unpublished)<\/li>\n<li>2007: FROST MOON (Dakota Frost series #1, published by Bell Bridge Books 2010)<\/li>\n<li>2008: BLOOD ROCK (Dakota Frost series #2, published by Bell Bridge Books 2011)<\/li>\n<li>2009: LIQUID FIRE (Dakota Frost series #3, forthcoming from Bell Bridge, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>2010: JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE (Jeremiah Willstone series #1, forthcoming from Bell Bridge est. 2014)<\/li>\n<li>2011: HEX CODE (Cinnamon Frost series #1, manuscript in progress)<\/li>\n<li>2012: MAROONED (Serendipity series #1, manuscript in progress)<\/li>\n<li>2013: SPECTRAL IRON (Dakota Frost series #4 manuscript in progress, estimated submission 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and now 2015: PHANTOM SILVER, which will be Dakota Frost #5. I&#8217;m planning on focusing on Dakota for a while now, trying to get books 4-6 to Debra (and my fans) so that they have six books in their hands, hopefully enough to tide them over while I get Cinnamon Frost, Jeremiah Willstone and Serendipity out the door.<\/p>\n<p>I could say more about Nano, or do link salsa to the text above to provide references. But I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m going to get back to writing; it&#8217;s already 10pm on Saturday November 1, and I&#8217;m only about 500 words in, when I need almost 1700. Arr, back to work, ye scurvy writer dawgs! It&#8217;s Nano time!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: a creepy Halloween cat at a nearby hardware store, thematic because I&#8217;m shooting for a slightly creepier Dakota Frost tale this time around, focusing mostly on ghosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Novel Writing Month is here again. For those who are just joining the party, it&#8217;s a challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,197,200,199,1,198],"tags":[6,4,91],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-fiction","category-science-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","category-urban-fantasy","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}