{"id":716,"date":"2022-11-04T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2022-11-04T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:07:50","slug":"taking-up-my-slack-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/taking-up-my-slack-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up My Slack Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m behind and literally treading water. In case you missed it, my life got crazy and I soon followed. I just got back from a trip home to my family because my dad was badly injured. I returned home to San Diego, read JONAH only to sink into a depressive dismay that demanded immediate action to improve where I was going with my story. It smells like a dung heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>So, I contacted some people to do alpha reading. I printed out my manuscript and red marked the hell out of it, and I plan to slaughter it. I would generally write something through and not stop to rewrite this early in my process, but my main character is missing from my story. That is a MASSIVE issue. So I need to fix that to go anywhere. I plan to descend upon this book with a loving vengeance. It&#8217;s going to get the massage of it&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I missed Teaser Tuesday and here is a part that I don&#8217;t have a problem with&#8230; about the only part. The first few lines of dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-10.19.27-AM-1024x231.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-10.19.27-AM-1024x231.png 1024w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-10.19.27-AM-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-10.19.27-AM-768x174.png 768w, https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-10.19.27-AM.png 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I have a schedule? Not at the moment. <br>What am I asking of you? Bear with me. It&#8217;s been a month of Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m behind and literally treading water. In case you missed it, my life got crazy and I soon followed. I just got back from a trip home to my family because my dad was badly injured. I returned home to San Diego, read JONAH only to sink into a depressive dismay that demanded immediate action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,3],"tags":[50,40,5],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaser-tuesday","category-wip-wednesday","category-writing","tag-jonah","tag-somnolence","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}