{"id":1118,"date":"2023-06-07T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:46:04","slug":"novel-writing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2023\/novel-writing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel writing update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/book_small.png\" alt=\"Book icon\" class=\"wp-image-780\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a quick reminder I am writing a novel. Want to make sure as many people as possible know this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel&#8217;s first draft is now officially finished. I have submitted it as part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snhu.edu\/online-degrees\/masters\/mfa-in-creative-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MFA in Creative Writing<\/a> and am awaiting feedback and am letting the book become unfamiliar to me so that I can hack at it with a sharp knife when it&#8217;s time to revise, next term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The working title is <em>Peter and Petra<\/em>, but if you have an idea for a novel about multiple-realities, loneliness, etc. let me know in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only about thirteen weeks from graduation, hopefully!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9523245931322834\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"shortbooksLink\">I write short stories and o\u00feer fiction &#8211; check \u00feem out at <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" title=\"\">shortbooks.online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many creative people on \u00fee internet, I have a Patreon account. If you would like to support my creative writing (on <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/shortbooks.online<\/a>) or my blogging efforts, please take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gavinayling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my Patreon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=58356065\" data-patreon-widget-type=\"become-patron-button\">Become a Patron!<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.patreon.com\/becomePatronButton.bundle.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, Just a quick reminder I am writing a novel. Want to make sure as many people as possible know this! The novel&#8217;s first draft is now officially finished. I have submitted it as part of my MFA in Creative Writing and am awaiting feedback and am letting the book become unfamiliar to me so that I can hack at it with a sharp knife when it&#8217;s time to revise, next term. The working title is Peter and Petra,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2023\/novel-writing-update\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-short-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}