{"id":700,"date":"2021-01-04T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2021-01-04T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:22:37","slug":"baby-steps-baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/baby-steps-baby-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Steps, Baby Steps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a long, multi-tiered discussion of my main characters with R-, *may* have kicked the chocks out from around the wheels and allowed things to move.\u00a0 It feels very&#8230;vulnerable&#8230;right now, so I&#8217;m not saying much, except that something under the surface is moving a little.\u00a0\u00a0 I know some things Ky *isn&#8217;t* going to be doing (anything to lessen the number of branches!) and ditto about Rafe.\u00a0\u00a0 Plus two or three things she might.\u00a0 Plus a better analysis of what has to be covered by the ending.\u00a0 (The Mmph! isn&#8217;t coming at the end now, but somewhat before that.\u00a0\u00a0 Which means the Errrrum can be there and lead to the Wrrmph?)\u00a0 Making notes in the Ideas file.\u00a0 (Every book has a main text file, a Names file, a Timeline file, and an Ideas file&#8230;that started when I put the Paks books onto the old IBM PC with DOS and WordStar and those 5 1\/4 floppies.\u00a0 Though I still often *drew* the Timeline, calculations were done in the Timeline file.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a long, multi-tiered discussion of my main characters with R-, *may* have kicked the chocks out from around the wheels and allowed things to move.\u00a0 It feels very&#8230;vulnerable&#8230;right now, so I&#8217;m not saying much, except that something under the surface is moving a little.\u00a0\u00a0 I know some things Ky *isn&#8217;t* going to be doing <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/baby-steps-baby-steps\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[30,21],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revision","category-vatta","tag-revision","tag-vatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}