{"id":227,"date":"2013-10-09T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=221"},"modified":"2017-02-01T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:21:29","slug":"ishtas-companion-progress-report-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2013\/10\/09\/ishtas-companion-progress-report-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishta’s Companion: Progress Report Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter Eleven<\/a> is now posted; it wasn’t paid for until about noon. I was dealing with my lunch and with computer problems, so it didn’t get posted until forty minutes later.<\/p>\n

A little more has come in since, but Chapter Twelve is still a long way from being paid for. It’s also a long way from being written — I’m only a page or two in. The next scene will be very easy to write, though, so I should be able to get it done in time with no problem.<\/p>\n

In the past I’ve always maintained a margin of at least a couple of chapters, usually four or five, but this time I haven’t managed that. I’ve been over-committed, what with wrapping up the Kickstarter campaign,<\/a> and publishing Stuart Hopen’s Warp Angel<\/i><\/a>\"\", and family trips to New England and Canada, and assorted other distractions. After Capclave<\/a> this weekend, though, I should have everything except the holidays out of the way and be able to catch up on writing.<\/p>\n

The slow income is more of a problem, really. Many readers don’t seem to be enthusiastic about this story, and others don’t seem to even be aware of it, though I’ve been making announcements everywhere I can think of. Where do fantasy readers hang out that I haven’t hit?<\/p>\n

As for the story, I don’t see it as slow-moving because everything so far has been establishing the characters and their situation, and it’s not intended to be action-adventure — most Ethshar stories aren’t. The pace should be picking up soon, though.<\/p>\n

Someone commented that we’re ten chapters into a story that I said would run twenty, and not much has happened; leaving aside any quibbles about whether much has happened, I really don’t know how long this one’s going to be. That twenty chapter estimate may turn out to be way low. Or not; I really<\/i> don’t know. What I think of as “Part One” will be wrapping up in a couple of chapters, and I have no idea<\/i> how long Part Two (of two) will be.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, Chapter Eleven<\/a> is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter Eleven is now posted; it wasn’t paid for until about noon. I was dealing with my lunch and with computer problems, so it didn’t get posted until forty minutes later. A little more has come in since, but Chapter Twelve is still a long way from being paid for. It’s also a long way… 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-227","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\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}