{"id":4525,"date":"2019-10-31T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2019-11-29T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T06:03:24","slug":"my-novels-and-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/my-novels-and-nano\/","title":{"rendered":"My Novels and Nano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SO! I love to write, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/the-novels\/\">four of my novels are published<\/a> &#8211; FROST MOON, BLOOD ROCK, LIQUID FIRE, about magical tattoo artist Dakota Frost, and JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE, about steampunk heroine Jeremiah Willstone.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/the-novels\/\">read about the published ones at my <strong>Novels<\/strong> page<\/a>, but even though life got a bit away from me this year, I haven&#8217;t stopped writing &#8211; I have six more finished novels in the editing queue, not to mention half a dozen more in process.<\/p>\n<p>And every single one of these novels, published or not, was largely written in <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a> in November (or its sister challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/campnanowrimo.org\/\">Camp Nanowrimo in April and July<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Nanowrimo is a 501(c)(3)that helps people find their creative voices &#8211; and certainly helped me transition from mostly not-writing to writing over a million words of fiction! (Way over, now).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CampNano2019April-Overall-600x447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CampNano2019April-Overall-600x447.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CampNano2019April-Overall-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CampNano2019April-Overall-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CampNano2019April-Overall.png 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every year, I donate to the Nanowrimo foundation to help them not just keep the lights on but to support young writers everywhere with their <a href=\"https:\/\/ywp.nanowrimo.org\/\">Young Writers Program<\/a>. This year, consider helping them bring literacy and creativity to more people all around the world!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO! I love to write, and four of my novels are published &#8211; FROST MOON, BLOOD ROCK, LIQUID FIRE, about magical tattoo artist Dakota Frost, and JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,255,197,199,198,202],"tags":[6,4,67,179,91,5],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges","category-featured","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-urban-fantasy","category-writing","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-jeremiah-willstone","tag-nanowrimo","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}