{"id":226,"date":"2013-10-07T02:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=219"},"modified":"2017-02-01T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:08:04","slug":"ishtas-companion-progress-report-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2013\/10\/07\/ishtas-companion-progress-report-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishta’s Companion: Progress Report Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m back from vacation and once again have full computer access, rather than a slow and balky wi-fi connection on an ancient laptop. I did get Chapter Ten<\/a> written and posted; it went up a few hours late because it wasn’t fully paid for until Wednesday morning, but it went up.<\/p>\n

I wrote slightly less than half of Chapter Eleven while on vacation, mostly on the train on the way home, and you may be concerned that it’s less than half, but then, it’s slightly less than half paid for, as of a few minutes ago. I still have a couple of days to get it done.<\/p>\n

This serial does not seem to have evoked the same enthusiasm as the earlier ones; I’m not sure whether it’s because the novelty has worn off, or because this story isn’t grabbing readers, or because I’ve somehow failed to reach readers to let them know it’s going on, or some combination of the above, but it’s not taking off. I’m therefore coming to the conclusion that it may be time to give this system up, and switch to one of the more direct crowdfunding methods, such as Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or maybe give Ethshar a rest for awhile. To be honest, while I have several more Ethshar novels plotted out, none of them feel like anything I must<\/i> write. There’s plenty of other stuff I want to work on.<\/p>\n

I expect that I’ll come back to Ethshar eventually, though. And of course, I do intend to finish this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m back from vacation and once again have full computer access, rather than a slow and balky wi-fi connection on an ancient laptop. I did get Chapter Ten written and posted; it went up a few hours late because it wasn’t fully paid for until Wednesday morning, but it went up. I wrote slightly… 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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ishta","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}