{"id":611,"date":"2017-06-15T05:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=611"},"modified":"2017-06-15T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:05:27","slug":"work-in-progress-a-hero-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/06\/15\/work-in-progress-a-hero-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress:  A Hero of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From a newsgroup post dated April 22, 2009, but still basically correct:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Progress report:<\/p>\n<p>Last time looked at:  4\/21\/09<\/p>\n<p>Last actual wordage added:  4\/21\/09<\/p>\n<p>Pages added 4\/21\/09:  1<\/p>\n<p>Current page count:  2<\/p>\n<p>Estimated final page count:  Probably about 400.  Maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline:  None yet, but Tor has the proposal. <i>No, they don&#8217;t.  At least, not officially, thought they may have hung onto it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Comments:  Have I mentioned this one yet?  I&#8217;m pretty sure I have.<\/p>\n<p>This is a novel that follows a bunch of the secondary characters from <i>Above His Proper Station<\/i> after the protagonist departs the vicinity.  The hero of this one is Argandos Galibier, though the title doesn&#8217;t necessarily refer to him.<\/p>\n<p>He disappeared from <i>Above His Proper Station<\/i> in Chapter Nine, and <i>A Hero of the People<\/i> picks up during Chapter Ten, but following Argandos instead of Anrel.<\/p>\n<p>Having sent Tor the proposal, I figured I should probably go ahead and write the opening.<\/p>\n<p><i>But alas, it went no further, because Tor turned it down, as my editor, Brian Thomsen, had died suddenly and his successor wasn&#8217;t interested in the series.  I do hope to write it someday.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a newsgroup post dated April 22, 2009, but still basically correct: Progress report: Last time looked at: 4\/21\/09 Last actual wordage added: 4\/21\/09 Pages added 4\/21\/09: 1 Current page count: 2 Estimated final page count: Probably about 400. Maybe more. Deadline: None yet, but Tor has the proposal. No, they don&#8217;t. At least, not&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/06\/15\/work-in-progress-a-hero-of-the-people\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}