{"id":1828,"date":"2013-08-02T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2013-08-02T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T18:59:49","slug":"words-good-hulk-not-smash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/writing\/words-good-hulk-not-smash","title":{"rendered":"Words Good. Hulk Not Smash."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hulk-think.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1270\" title=\"hulk think\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hulk-think-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hulk-think-300x115.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hulk-think.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I’ve been deep in the trenches writing up a storm. The Hearthstones project is really picking up steam, and if people have as much fun reading it as I’m having writing it I think my audience will be quite satisfied. At this point I’m closing on 50 thousand words, but I’m not sure how long the whole thing will be. (<em>The Bones of the Old Ones<\/em> is about 115 k.)<\/p>\n<p>It’s my intention to write a longer book, longer books being the vogue in today’s market. Shorter ones seem to be met with some sort of confusion and even disdain, by some. I hope to have a longer book that maintains a high pace, with plenty of mystery and intrigue in amongst the fantasy action and adventure. So far I think I’m doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason that I’m not sure of the eventual length is that, despite my detailed outline, the size of the chapters varies once I convert from outline to text. After writing four novels that were right around 90 to 110 thousand words I have a feel for how to do one of those. I sense this will be longer, but I won’t know <em>how<\/em> long until I hit the halfway point. 150 k? 175k? Hulk not know!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day will be devoted to readying for a family reunion, so I’ll sign off. Monday I hope to talk a little about some outlining techniques I’ve been experimenting with. For now, here’s a link to a review by James Reasoner of <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesreasoner.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/forgotten-books-wolfs-head-john-benteen.html\">a book from the Fargo<\/a>\u00a0series. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/uncategorized\/celebrating-the-work-of-ben-haas\">I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, the allure of western novels always escaped me until I discovered the writing of Ben Haas. Now I’m a fan for life — at least of westerns by Haas. I’ve yet to explore to much further into the genre from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I’ve been deep in the trenches writing up a storm. The Hearthstones project is really picking up steam, and if people have as much fun reading it as I’m having writing it I think my audience will be quite satisfied. At this point I’m closing on 50 thousand words, but I’m not sure how long […]<\/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-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}