{"id":5595,"date":"2011-07-25T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2011-07-25T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:11:16","slug":"wow-this-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wow-this-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, this is fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent almost the whole day Saturday with family, but when I finally got around to working on Sholpan<\/em>, I breezed through almost 10k words in only a couple hours. \u00a0Granted, it was mostly light revision and the material was fairly well polished to begin with, but still…it was just fun.<\/em><\/p>\n

The best part of writing this novella has been rediscovering Stella’s story from Bringing Stella Home.<\/em>\u00a0 At first, I was a little worried that it might be a bit too shocking (and for some of my friends, it probably is), but there’s a lot of depth to the story, and the content, while definitely mature, is never gratuitous.<\/p>\n

The story is basically about an innocent, sexually inexperienced young woman who struggles to keep her virtue and self-respect intact within the harem of the brutal space barbarians who have enslaved her. \u00a0While she starts from a position of almost total powerlessness, she finds ways to leverage herself without completely compromising her values.<\/p>\n

I haven’t figure out the blurb yet, but that’s a pretty accurate description of the story. \u00a0It’s basically all of the scenes in Bringing Stella Home<\/em> from Stella’s viewpoint, up through the first and second acts of the book. \u00a0In the third act, everything comes to a head, and…well, I won’t ruin it for you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I’ll probably finish Sholpan<\/em>\u00a0sometime later today. \u00a0My copy editor for Bringing Stella Home<\/em>\u00a0should be sending back the manuscript with his edits tonight, and I’ll spend the rest of the week going through and getting it ready for publication. \u00a0By Monday, it should be up!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, check this out: I was playing with the cover art yesterday afternoon, and came up with a cover for Sholpan.<\/em>\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n

The thumbnail:<\/p>\n

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…and the full sized image:<\/p>\n

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Man, this is so much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent almost the whole day Saturday with family, but when I finally got around to working on Sholpan, I breezed through almost 10k words in only a couple hours. \u00a0Granted, it was mostly light revision and the material was fairly well polished to begin with, but still…it was just fun. The best part of… Continue reading Wow, this is fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,541],"tags":[193,196,527,156,257,190],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-sholpan-novella","tag-conflict","tag-happiness","tag-novellas","tag-revising","tag-sex","tag-women","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}