{"id":142,"date":"2023-05-29T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=142"},"modified":"2023-05-29T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:03:40","slug":"the-next-book-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"The Next Book Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outline is 75% written &#8230; the character descriptions are mostly down &#8230; and I&#8217;ve written the first two pages. Mind you, I&#8217;ve had the first two pages written, in my head, for a loooong time. But it feels good to have it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The really nice thing is having the outline. This makes it glaringly obvious where the plot holes are (hoo boy, are there plot holes), where the &#8220;dead spots&#8221; are, and where I need to do more research. In this case, though, since it&#8217;s not historical fiction and it&#8217;s not treading any new technical areas, it&#8217;s more human \/ relationship research. Which I&#8217;ll be reaching out for over the next few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/book.jpg?resize=523%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143\" width=\"523\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/book.jpg?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/book.jpg?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/book.jpg?resize=768%2C664&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/book.jpg?resize=685%2C592&amp;ssl=1 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outline is 75% written &#8230; the character descriptions are mostly down &#8230; and I&#8217;ve written the first two pages. Mind you, I&#8217;ve had the first two pages written, in my head, for a loooong time. But it feels good to have it down. The really nice thing is having the outline. This makes it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Next Book Begins&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}