{"id":188,"date":"2012-03-24T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-03-24T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:31:23","slug":"a-777-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"A #777 Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been challenged. I feel the need to heed the call. I know the fiction writer’s group I’m trying to more actives with have all been challenged by Juli<\/a> so this doesn’t apply to them. However, if anyone reads this blog and feels like posting, do so and send me a link back.<\/p>\n

Here are the rules:<\/p>\n

1.Go to page 77 of your current MS.
\n2.Go to line 7.
\n3.Copy down the next 7 lines\/sentences, and post them as they\u2019re written. No cheating.
\n4.Tag 7 other authors<\/p>\n

Ok, now which work to choose?
\nFrom Under the Milky Way (Working Title. I listen to music when I write and find story titles in songs.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see it as anything I\u2019ve lost or have given up. Honestly, I made the choice freely, knowing I couldn\u2019t be a good husband and a father and be a priest as well. My family would always suffer for the good of the Church,\u201d he says. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be fair.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cFor what it\u2019s worth, I think it\u2019s cool you\u2019re a priest,\u201d he says. <\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew smiles and nods his head. \u201cClean up and come back with us to Isabel\u2019s. Maybe we can stop for some ice cream or coffee,\u201d Andrew suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cNah, you don\u2019t want me tagging along.\u201d’<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not? You\u2019re right when you said I don\u2019t know you very well. It\u2019s my fault for that. What are you going to do here by yourself till Mom and Dad come home?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Now, I’m going to read all of the other excerpts. Funny thing, I looked at my other story, which takes place in the same universe. The protagonists are different but are related and the excerpt on page 77 has a short scene also with Andrew, a year or so before he becomes a priest. And Debi knows that he resembles Jared Padalecki from “Supernatural”. \u00a0Oh, the shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been challenged. I feel the need to heed the call. I know the fiction writer’s group I’m trying to more actives with have all been challenged by Juli so this doesn’t apply to them. However, if anyone reads … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,27,13,11],"tags":[73,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}