{"id":836,"date":"2020-08-24T18:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=836"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:46:51","slug":"the-next-novel-is-almost-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"The next novel is almost real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing this novel several years ago before Once in a Blue Year was even finished. I had a rough idea and a couple of scenes. I worked on it from time to time but got distracted by other projects (none of which I finished either). Over the years, the title changed, the characters changed, and the story evolved. At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided now was the time. I had always complained that if I had more time, I could finish it in a month. I had no more excuses. I dug out all the random files and started piecing them together. To my surprise, I had amassed over 500,000 words of material. The process from April until now has been chaotic, but I managed to create a viable draft. Now the hard part of revision begins. I still have a long way to go, but I am ready to give it a title: <em><strong>Summer of Bicycle Disasters.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image-676x389.jpg 676w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/first-draft-image.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing this novel several years ago before Once in a Blue Year was even finished. I had a rough idea and a couple of scenes. I worked on it from time to time but got distracted by other projects (none of which I finished either). Over the years, the title changed, the characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}