{"id":1756,"date":"2014-05-06T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2014-05-06T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:25:47","slug":"novel-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Novel Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted for two months.  I&#8217;ve been working on what I call my &#8220;opus&#8221;, a grand-scaled novel about Miami, Cuba, nuclear war, water shortages exacerbated by hydraulic fracking and virtual reality.  How&#8217;s that for a combination of topics, all in one book?  If interested, the outline can be found under the Writing tab.  It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5pc_Nastya_Red_Nesting_Dolls_2009_Reg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5pc_Nastya_Red_Nesting_Dolls_2009_Reg-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"5pc_Nastya_Red_Nesting_Dolls_2009_Reg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5pc_Nastya_Red_Nesting_Dolls_2009_Reg-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5pc_Nastya_Red_Nesting_Dolls_2009_Reg.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a> Matryoshka, and the beginning of that post explains what that means.  Donna Tartt, who wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the_goldfinch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the_goldfinch-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"the_goldfinch\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the_goldfinch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the_goldfinch-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the_goldfinch.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> &#8220;The Goldfinch&#8221;, was my inspiration in beginning this novel.  She showed that a great story can be told, even if it takes 10 years and 778 pages.  Thank you Donna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted for two months. I&#8217;ve been working on what I call my &#8220;opus&#8221;, a grand-scaled novel about Miami, Cuba, nuclear war, water shortages exacerbated by hydraulic fracking and virtual reality. How&#8217;s that for a combination of topics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=1756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}