{"id":661,"date":"2017-08-17T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=661"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:42:22","slug":"work-in-progress-elfshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/08\/17\/work-in-progress-elfshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress: Elfshot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress report:\"Flora<\/p>\n

Last time looked at: 8\/17\/17<\/p>\n

Last actual wordage added: 8\/17\/17<\/p>\n

Pages added, 8\/17\/17: 1<\/p>\n

Current page count: 3<\/p>\n

Estimated final page count: 300? I don\u2019t really have any idea.<\/p>\n

Deadline: None. Purely speculative.<\/p>\n

Comments: On Twitter, Kurt Busiek talked about seeing the book Flora of Middle Earth<\/i> and thinking it looked like a Tolkienian cozy murder mystery. He and several of his followers expressed interest in reading such a book, so I offered to write one.<\/p>\n

That’s now Elfshot<\/i>, though the title may change. It’s not set in Middle Earth, since I can’t get the rights, so I’ve had to create my own world for it — yes, yet another. The Folk are small humanoids, about two-thirds human size, who live in a place called the Vale and have as little contact as possible with humans, elves, delvers, or the not-yet-definitely-named forest spirits who live in the surrounding areas. Hyacinth Undercliff is one of the Folk — the town librarian and historian — who lives with her ill grandfather, and she winds up trying to figure out who killed a young scavenger named Mulberry Thicket.<\/p>\n

In this first three pages, Mulberry’s girlfriend Lily has discovered the body and led Hyacinth to it.<\/p>\n

I had originally opened the story differently, so today’s work also involved major rewrite of the first two pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress report: Last time looked at: 8\/17\/17 Last actual wordage added: 8\/17\/17 Pages added, 8\/17\/17: 1 Current page count: 3 Estimated final page count: 300? I don\u2019t really have any idea. Deadline: None. Purely speculative. Comments: On Twitter, Kurt Busiek talked about seeing the book Flora of Middle Earth and thinking it looked like a… 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-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}