{"id":1343,"date":"2013-03-12T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:25:09","slug":"pedal-to-the-paizo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/writing\/pedal-to-the-paizo","title":{"rendered":"Pedal to the Paizo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of cool things on my radar, but my blog is apt to be quiet for a bit. There are only a few weeks left before I&#8217;m to turn over my second Paizo Pathfinder novel. The rough (in some spots, very rough &#8212; like, still needing sanding and primer paint) draft is through and now I&#8217;m tightening things up, heightening some description, improving some character moments, etc. I&#8217;m liable to be working night and day until that&#8217;s all over, which means I won&#8217;t have time to play around online.<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of authors prefer the rough draft process, but, maybe because of all my years as an editor, it&#8217;s the outlining stage and the editing stage I actually like the best. Once everything is on the page and the arcs and motivations are in place I can better see exactly what needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>The tentative title is now <em>Stalking the Beast<\/em>. I&#8217;ve been brainstorming some cover concepts with Paizo&#8217;s James Sutter; the new book will probably have a picture of Elyana Sadrastis wailing away on some kind of beastie, because she&#8217;s pretty good at that. No dragon this time, though.<\/p>\n<p>Right. Now to breakfast, then to feed horses, then writing\/revising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of cool things on my radar, but my blog is apt to be quiet for a bit. There are only a few weeks left before I&#8217;m to turn over my second Paizo Pathfinder novel. The rough (in some spots, very rough &#8212; like, still needing sanding and primer paint) draft is through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}