{"id":1204,"date":"2009-12-10T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:11:34","slug":"writing-update-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Writing Update: November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, heck, still haven&#8217;t done one of these. So, yes, I&#8217;ve hit my target of twelve complete short stories, one for each month, that are going to be submittable somewhere. Some of them are even in a submittable kinda state. For the rest, I&#8217;ve got three weeks to knock some sense into them.<br \/>\nSo one last time, that title list, some titles will change:<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The Tape&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Buckets&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Babel&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The Twelve Times I Drank Too Much&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Lift Story&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The Apotheosis of Melvin Rameka&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Inappropriate Boss&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The Intervention Upstairs&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The Confession&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Box Takes A Honeymoon&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Perfectly Right&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Walking story&#8221;<br \/>\nIn the last update I mentioned spending &#8220;half an hour today chewing over one line of dialogue&#8221; for the show. I spent another hour or so on it a week later, then in rehearsal someone called me on it. &#8220;Self-indulgent&#8221;. They were right. I cut the line, and it plays heaps better. So there&#8217;s a lesson.<br \/>\nFor the first time in five years I&#8217;ve pulled the fantasy novel off the shelf and I&#8217;m ticking about with it, perhaps with an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonmoonpress.com\/joomla\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=74:open-submissions-december-2009-only&#038;catid=41:submissions&#038;Itemid=63\">this<\/a>.<br \/>\nActually, my main writing mission right now is getting my Kapcon game ready&#8230;<br \/>\nRight, final stretch. Wish me luck and fortitude.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/003063.html\">Previous writing update<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, heck, still haven&#8217;t done one of these. So, yes, I&#8217;ve hit my target of twelve complete short stories, one for each month, that are going to be submittable somewhere. Some of them are even in a submittable kinda state. For the rest, I&#8217;ve got three weeks to knock some sense into them. So one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Update: November<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-jq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}