{"id":220,"date":"2011-11-04T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T08:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-11-04T01:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T08:56:24","slug":"11500-words-into-hex-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"11,500 words into HEX CODE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEX CODE, the Cinnamon Frost YA, is progressing nicely this National Novel Writing Month. I&#8217;m 11,500 words in, which means, given that I started with a seed of 1500 words, that I&#8217;ve just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1387\">finished 10,000 words so far this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 20% of the 50,000 words that make up Nano. HEX CODE is looking to be a slightly more complex YA than I initially thought, probably 90,000 words rather than 60,000 (unless I can keep it tight) so I&#8217;m probably about 10% done with the book. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite fun &#8211; the Atlanta Homicide Barbershop Quarter, Rand, McGough, Horscht and Gibbs, have made their first appearance and now that all our principals know each other the scene fits like a glove. Interesting seeing things from Cinnamon&#8217;s perspective! <\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; onward!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEX CODE, the Cinnamon Frost YA, is progressing nicely this National Novel Writing Month. I&#8217;m 11,500 words in, which means, given that I started with a seed of 1500 words, that I&#8217;ve just finished 10,000 words so far this month. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,7,19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}