{"id":315,"date":"2017-07-24T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-07-24T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:45:11","slug":"mining-that-spiritual-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Mining that SPIRITUAL GOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re getting ahead of the curve at last on SPIRITUAL GOLD &#8230; two days ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Camp-Nano-2017-07-24-a.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"371\" alt=\"Camp Nano 2017-07-24-a.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My writing retreat this weekend has paid off. I spent some time hanging out with the Treehouse Writers at the Linde Lane Tea Room in Dixon, California, then holed up in a hotel in downtown Davis, hanging out in bookstores and coffeehouses in an attempt to make some progress on SPIRITUAL GOLD. The actual day of the drive was a wash, but after that, I managed to get more than two days worth of words done in each day, and almost that today.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Camp-Nano-2017-07-24-b.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" alt=\"Camp Nano 2017-07-24-b.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now at last I&#8217;m ahead of the curve, and if I can stay there for a few more days, I&#8217;ll win Camp Nano. More importantly, however, I&#8217;ve marched forward in the manuscript so I&#8217;m around Chapter 37 out of roughly 50, with much of the text of the remainder partially written and merely needing some ironing out. With luck, I&#8217;ll finish SPIRITUAL GOLD at the end of the month, and shortly thereafter, and then can begin editing Dakota Frosts #4-#6 together as one big trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re getting ahead of the curve at last on SPIRITUAL GOLD &#8230; two days ahead. My writing retreat this weekend has paid off. I spent some time hanging out with the Treehouse Writers at the Linde Lane Tea Room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/?p=315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotafrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}