{"id":70,"date":"2014-03-25T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-03-25T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:22:08","slug":"new-worlds-and-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"New Worlds, and Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down last night and opened a blank document.\u00a0 Not a new book&#8230;yet.\u00a0 A blank document that will contain all my thoughts and ideas for a new book, just blurted out straight into it.\u00a0 And then the research starts.\u00a0 The name choosing.\u00a0 The nailing down of ideas and fleshing of characters &#8211; everything I need to know who these characters are.<\/p>\n<p>And then the writing begins.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I&#8217;ve revisiting my Grimm Agency world, looking at what is either a short novella or a long short story set after &#8220;Free Agent&#8221; but before the sequel.\u00a0 New worlds are fun, but so is going back to worlds and characters that just fit together and telling new stories.<\/p>\n<p>New series, or sequels?\u00a0 Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down last night and opened a blank document.\u00a0 Not a new book&#8230;yet.\u00a0 A blank document that will contain all my thoughts and ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/?p=70\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Worlds, and Old<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorjcnelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}