{"id":202,"date":"2012-05-26T00:12:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T04:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-02-02T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:53:16","slug":"the-sorcerers-widow-progress-report-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2012\/05\/26\/the-sorcerers-widow-progress-report-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sorcerer&#8217;s Widow:  Progress Report Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/TheSorcerersWidow05.html\">Chapter Five<\/a> has now been posted.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters Six through Eleven are paid for.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m halfway through writing Chapter Eight, so I&#8217;m maintaining my safety margin.  I&#8217;d like to increase it, but for some reason this story is slower going than Ethshar usually is.<\/p>\n<p>My best estimate &#8212; which could easily be <i>way<\/i> off &#8212; is that this story will run about twelve chapters, and 30,000-35,000 words.  Which is technically, by modern standards, a novella, rather than a novel.  Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p>The old pulp magazines used to advertise anything over 20,000 words as &#8220;a complete novel in this issue!&#8221; though, so there&#8217;s precedent.  And it may wind up longer than I expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Five has now been posted. Chapters Six through Eleven are paid for. I&#8217;m halfway through writing Chapter Eight, so I&#8217;m maintaining my safety margin. I&#8217;d like to increase it, but for some reason this story is slower going than Ethshar usually is. My best estimate &#8212; which could easily be way off &#8212; is&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2012\/05\/26\/the-sorcerers-widow-progress-report-five\/\">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":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports","category-the-sorcerers-widow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}