{"id":147,"date":"2009-08-11T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-08-11T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T06:40:07","slug":"characters-the-bane-of-my-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Characters! The Bane of My Existence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, not really. I&#8217;m revising my novel. I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m breaking it into two stories, at least for the time being. I&#8217;m trying to tighten up the first half and then the second half, I&#8217;ll work on and think of it as a stand-alone story. It seems to be that a lot of novelists write continuing stories in their universe so why can&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>For me, my series or universe features a family of cousins, so I don&#8217;t see why I can&#8217;t write two stories about Isabel, one about Lena, one about Andrew, one with Rachel and Josh? I have a couple of short story ideas with other characters.<\/p>\n<p>It could work. Oh, if only I could finish something and have the confidence to take the next step.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, I gotta write about a priest going to Confession.\u00a0 I have a scene where Andrew is basically an ass to Isabel, but he doesn&#8217;t realize it till Tomas tells him how, yet again, he&#8217;s hurt Isabel. I know priests Confess regularly to another priest, but I can&#8217;t fathom what else Andrew would confess? It may be a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, not really. I&#8217;m revising my novel. I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m breaking it into two stories, at least for the time being. I&#8217;m trying to tighten up the first half and then the second half, I&#8217;ll work on and think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/?p=147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicink.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}