{"id":2803,"date":"2015-11-13T02:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2017-03-26T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:05:52","slug":"why-yes-im-writing-a-young-adult-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/why-yes-im-writing-a-young-adult-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why yes, I&#8217;m writing a young adult novel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2804\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2804\" title=\"20151112_125729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151112_125729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151112_125729.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151112_125729-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151112_125729-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; why do you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Technically, a Cinnamon Frost novel is an urban fantasy novel with a young adult protagonist. I am doing some work to make it young adult friendly, up to a point, but at some point you have to acknowledge that as much as we all love her, we&#8217;ve got a formerly homeless and abused teenage weretiger with behavior problems as our protagonist, in a world which is a &#8220;real&#8221; world, not a young adult friendly world &#8211; and she&#8217;s supposed to be a math genius, and if I&#8217;m going to have a story with a math genius, dang it, I want the math to be real math, even if takes me a while to figure out how to coherently explain what the heck a &#8220;loxodrome&#8221; is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the spiral you get if you run stairs up the side of a dome, but your architect was lazy and made the stairs cut a fixed angle to the meridians in their drawing, rather than a fixed angle that&#8217;s useful for constant climbing. Sigh. That&#8217;s not clear either. Needs more work. Back to it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>P.S. And yes, I&#8217;m still on track for Nano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; why do you ask? Technically, a Cinnamon Frost novel is an urban fantasy novel with a young adult protagonist. I am doing some work to make it young adult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1],"tags":[6,4,134,91],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-uncategorized","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-fearful-symmetry","tag-nanowrimo","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}