{"id":491,"date":"2019-08-23T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2019-08-23T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:05:54","slug":"maybe-we-have-ignition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/23\/maybe-we-have-ignition\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe…We Have Ignition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a tentatively-hopeful statement that the third Vatta’s Peace<\/em> book may actually be alive.\u00a0 I can’t answer questions about it, and please do not, at this point, make suggestions (suggestions killed another book I thought was really coming alive), but I have a question for the Vatta fans.\u00a0 Of the military survivors of the crash in Cold Welcome<\/em>,\u00a0 who were in Into the Fire<\/em>, which few (2-4, maybe one more) would you like to see in the next book?\u00a0 If it lives?\u00a0 I’m at the point where someone should be coming to the door, but what’s said and how will depend on who it is.\u00a0 And right now…I’m not “seeing” that.<\/p>\n

At present (and this is only the earliest stage of a first draft) the book starts the day Ky leaves the Academy.\u00a0 It took longer than she hoped for the government (which has had a major election in the meantime) to choose her successor.\u00a0 So her plan is for a few weeks of actual vacation, catching up with the other parts of her life.\u00a0 That’s not, of course, what happens between the Academy and where she thought she was going, but…what’s there now may not be “real” either.<\/p>\n

What else is going on?\u00a0 The newest horse is not settling as well as I hoped, but I still believe he will, in time.\u00a0 I have at the moment a very sore, and possibly infected, toe.\u00a0 Health problems continue in the family, including one we thought we were done with.\u00a0 It’s quite serious, so if it flares I need to be ready to drive someone to the hospital quickly.\u00a0 Which means I should not be away for more than 12 hours, but…I already have commitments to be elsewhere for much longer than that.\u00a0 Which means finding backups.\u00a0 It’s been August for 23 days, which means hot and dry\u00a0 to VERY HOT and VERY DRY.\u00a0 Longing for October.<\/p>\n

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This is a tentatively-hopeful statement that the third Vatta’s Peace book may actually be alive.\u00a0 I can’t answer questions about it, and please do not, at this point, make suggestions (suggestions killed another book I thought was really coming alive), but I have a question for the Vatta fans.\u00a0 Of the military survivors of the Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40,10],"tags":[17,7],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-reader-help-needed","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}