{"id":800,"date":"2022-11-05T19:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=800"},"modified":"2022-11-05T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:34:48","slug":"shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2022\/11\/05\/shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten serious about a new novel since finishing <em>Tom Derringer &#038; the Electrical Empire<\/em>; oh, I&#8217;ve added a page here and a page there, but haven&#8217;t focused on one.  Instead I&#8217;ve been writing short stories.<\/p>\n<p>Not counting stories for specific anthologies, I have now finished two of the three I had going:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Harvest&#8221; is an Ethshar story, 7,300 words, set in the year YS 5202 on a wheat farm eighty miles north of Ethshar of the Spices.  I started it in June at the request of a reader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three Days Late for the Hanging&#8221; is a fantasy western, 6,800 words, with the setting deliberately vague but probably Colorado in 1878 or thereabouts; I started writing it on a whim in 2014, and finally got it done.<\/p>\n<p>The one I haven&#8217;t finished yet is &#8220;The Girl Who Couldn&#8217;t Fly,&#8221; nine pages\/2,200 words so far; I started it in 2004(!).  It&#8217;s set in a sort of mythic version of small-town America.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure whether I&#8217;ll get &#8220;The Girl Who Couldn&#8217;t Fly&#8221; done next, or get serious on a novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten serious about a new novel since finishing Tom Derringer &#038; the Electrical Empire; oh, I&#8217;ve added a page here and a page there, but haven&#8217;t focused on one. Instead I&#8217;ve been writing short stories. Not counting stories for specific anthologies, I have now finished two of the three I had going: &#8220;The&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2022\/11\/05\/shorts\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}