{"id":51,"date":"2013-04-22T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2013-04-22T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:10:29","slug":"another-story-added-to-long-distance-dedications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Another Story Added to Long-Distance Dedications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>Well, if you follow\/friend\/circle me on Twitter\/Facebook\/Google+, you know that I&#8217;ve just finished the first draft of &#8220;Confirmed&#8221;. \u00a0As it stands right now, it&#8217;s one of the larger stories of\u00a0<em>Long-Distance Dedications<\/em>, although it&#8217;s not the longest. \u00a0I mention this because of all the stories I&#8217;ve written for the book, this one has come together the quickest. \u00a0(In first draft form, at least. \u00a0I&#8217;m not convinced that I&#8217;m done, because there will undoubtedly be alpha and beta readers who say I ended the story too quickly, and I&#8217;ll have to give them due consideration.)<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I personally found interesting about writing this piece is that it&#8217;s the first time (but not the last) that Dave makes a direct reference in a story in\u00a0<em>Long-Distance Dedications\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>another\u00a0<\/em>story in\u00a0the book. \u00a0The other stories have objects, or maybe people, that are referenced from story to story, but this is the first time that a scene in one story ends \u00a0up as a subject in another story. \u00a0 As I said, it won&#8217;t be the last time, so if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing, look for it in the book. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you enjoy it when you read it. \u00a0It should be out of beta form rather quickly, and then I&#8217;ll start deciding where to put it (either direct to Amazon or submitting to magazines).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you follow\/friend\/circle me on Twitter\/Facebook\/Google+, you know that I&#8217;ve just finished the first draft of &#8220;Confirmed&#8221;. \u00a0As it stands right now, it&#8217;s one of the larger stories of\u00a0Long-Distance Dedications, although it&#8217;s not the longest. \u00a0I mention this because of all the stories I&#8217;ve written for the book, this one has come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Story Added to Long-Distance Dedications<\/span> <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-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longdistancededications.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}