{"id":2960,"date":"2024-07-11T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2024-07-08T20:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:16:38","slug":"writing-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/writing-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2961\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Pets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/>It\u2019s been an up and down last couple of months on the writing front. With a beach trip and family visits, writing time has been limited and I\u2019ve been distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Put that together with hitting a bit of a wall on the current work in progress, <strong><em>Unleashed for Murder<\/em><\/strong>, and receiving some helpful feedback on the previously finished draft for <strong><em>Treadwell House \u2013 Sanctuary<\/em><\/strong>, I\u2019ve been in a bit of a holding pattern. On the novel, front, anyway. I have still been writing. I\u2019ve finished a couple of short stories that are now in submission and another one that\u2019s almost done.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Unleashed<\/strong> <\/em>is right about at the halfway point, but I\u2019ve realized it has some structural issues, so I may have to go back and rewrite some of it. And I need to do some rewriting on <em><strong>Treadwell<\/strong><\/em> to deepen some of the tensions and add more conflict. Plus the descriptions need to be amped up. I\u2019m kind of excited about doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an up and down last couple of months on the writing front. With a beach trip and family visits, writing time has been limited and I\u2019ve been distracted. Put that together with hitting a bit of a wall <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/writing-update-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,204],"tags":[382,370],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-center-mysteries","category-writing","tag-treadwell-house","tag-unleashed-for-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}