{"id":1700,"date":"2008-11-11T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2008-11-11T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T08:16:10","slug":"nanowrimo-update-17364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1700","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo update: 17,364."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first dreamed up the premise for <i>Children of Winter, Children of Wolves<\/i> (which has the unfortunate shortened name of <i>CoW, CoW<\/i>) last year in Frank Espinosa&#8217;s world-building class, I knew where I wanted to take the story: Romania.  There was something about the lore of Eastern Europe, tied up in all its delicious stories of vampires, werewolves and specters, along with the beauty of the gypsy culture, that I wanted to play with, and so, last night about six o&#8217;clock or so (or at the 10,304-word mark) I threw my protagonists on a plane and sent them to Romania.<br \/>\nThis has been both awesome and slightly sucky.  Awesome, in that I&#8217;m having a ton of fun sending them through places with names like T\u00c3\u00aergu Mures, Cluj-Napoca and Alba Ilula and investigating things with names like Biserica Neagr\u00c4\u0192, or the Black Church.  Sucky, however, in that it&#8217;s tricky to conduct a lot of research when you&#8217;re on a strict timeline.  Hence, my writing this morning has only generated a little under a thousand more words.  That&#8217;s okay, because I&#8217;ll give this another go when I get home tonight, but still&#8230;  Rats.<br \/>\nThat said, how can you not see something like this and think it&#8217;s awesome?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/images\/journal\/black_church.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Black Church\"><\/div>\n<p>See?  <i>Awesome.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first dreamed up the premise for Children of Winter, Children of Wolves (which has the unfortunate shortened name of CoW, CoW) last year in Frank Espinosa&#8217;s world-building class, I knew where I wanted to take the story: Romania. There was something about the lore of Eastern Europe, tied up in all its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","category-writing-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-rq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}