{"id":3547,"date":"2015-12-10T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2020-11-10T00:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T05:43:07","slug":"ace-of-arts-update-chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Ace of Arts Update: Chapter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kinda amazed that I&#8217;m still not making time for more than one chapter a week right now. Well maybe a better word is &#8220;disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that this is probably my favorite chapter so far. Chapter 5 is about protagonist Megan interacting with Brady in homeroom and finding out some stuff about him that suggests he is not the jerk she has always thought he was (though she&#8217;s still wondering if he&#8217;s a liar). I did kinda feel like she said too many words in the chapter though. She&#8217;s pretty reserved and usually quite reluctant to say anything at all, and I think I could pull back on some of her dialogue since this has to be a new record for her.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s also been a bomb dropped on her about diversifying her portfolio so now she&#8217;s dealing with that too. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get it strung together soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 5 was 2,540 words and brings the book&#8217;s total to about 12,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to bring Megan&#8217;s sister back for Chapter 6 and build on some of her home life stuff because that&#8217;s going to be important. I don&#8217;t want to linger there too much though because I want to get her back to school and throw Brady at her again. That&#8217;ll be fun because I&#8217;ve kind of written that part already, back when I first wrote about these characters in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kinda amazed that I&#8217;m still not making time for more than one chapter a week right now. Well maybe a better word is &#8220;disappointed.&#8221; The good news is that this is probably my favorite chapter so far. Chapter 5 is about protagonist Megan interacting with Brady in homeroom and finding out some stuff about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,5,6],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-novels","tag-ace-of-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}