{"id":172,"date":"2011-01-12T01:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=138"},"modified":"2017-02-06T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:41:53","slug":"the-final-callingthe-unwelcome-warlock-progress-report-thirty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2011\/01\/12\/the-final-callingthe-unwelcome-warlock-progress-report-thirty-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Calling\/The Unwelcome Warlock:  Progress Report Thirty-One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/thefinalcalling31.html\">Chapter Thirty-One<\/a> is now online.  Read!  Enjoy!  Tell your friends!  Send money!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re paid through Chapter Thirty-Three, just over halfway to Chapter Thirty-Four.  Chapter Thirty-Two will be posted no later than Wednesday, January 19th.  (&#8220;No later than&#8221;?  See below.)<\/p>\n<p>The first draft is written except for the second half of Chapter Thirty-Eight, and I might decide to add a short epilogue.  It runs forty chapters, and about 125,000 words.  I should have this draft finished in a few days, but due to the need to actually make a living I may not get to the second draft for a couple of months &#8212; I hadn&#8217;t intended to take this long on this story, and want to get something else out to market before reworking it.<\/p>\n<p>At this point there&#8217;s no doubt that the novel will be finished and eventually published, but the serial is another matter &#8212; we&#8217;re still short six and a half chapters on the money end.  I don&#8217;t mind dragging it out, if the money comes in slowly, but if it&#8217;s still not done when the finished book sees print, it never will be.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if the money comes in more quickly than expected, I&#8217;m planning to go to twice-a-week publication, Wednesdays and Saturdays.  If I have more than two chapters paid for by this weekend, one will go up Saturday, as well as Wednesday &#8212; so if Chapter Thirty-Four is paid for by 11:00 p.m. EST on Friday, Chapter Thirty-Two will be posted Saturday, January 15th, rather than waiting until next week.<\/p>\n<p>Will that happen?  We&#8217;ll have to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Thirty-One is now online. Read! Enjoy! Tell your friends! Send money! We\u2019re paid through Chapter Thirty-Three, just over halfway to Chapter Thirty-Four. Chapter Thirty-Two will be posted no later than Wednesday, January 19th. (&#8220;No later than&#8221;? See below.) The first draft is written except for the second half of Chapter Thirty-Eight, and I might&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2011\/01\/12\/the-final-callingthe-unwelcome-warlock-progress-report-thirty-one\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports","category-the-final-calling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}