{"id":1027,"date":"2006-10-15T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/beginnings-first-draft-complete\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:28:14","slug":"beginnings-first-draft-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/beginnings-first-draft-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings.  First Draft Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed the first draft of <em>Beginnings<\/em>, my <a href=\"http:\/\/pbackwriter.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/pbws-e-book-challenge.html\">PBW e-book challenge<\/a> short story entry.  I plan to complete revisions by next Sunday &#8212; it needs some bite.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve signed up for FM&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fmwriters.com\/community\/dc\/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&#038;forum=128&#038;topic_id=16391&#038;mesg_id=16391&#038;page=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outline Marathon<\/a> this week &#8212; I have to jot down some thoughts for this year&#8217;s NaNoWriMo entry, <em>30 Days to Regularity<\/em>.  I plan to use MindManager for most of that.   I&#8217;ll alternate that with revisions.  I also need to spruce up the biography and bibliography for the e-book.  Thanks to <em>Vision<\/em> and the <em>Air Power Journal<\/em>, I do have a couple of writing credits.  While my <em>Air Power Journal<\/em> book reviews were published in their respective print editions (Winter and Summer 1998), it&#8217;s easier to find them in the <em>Chronicles Online Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed the first draft of Beginnings, my PBW e-book challenge short story entry. I plan to complete revisions by next Sunday &#8212; it needs some bite. I&#8217;ve signed up for FM&#8217;s Outline Marathon this week &#8212; I have to jot down some thoughts for this year&#8217;s NaNoWriMo entry, 30 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/beginnings-first-draft-complete\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-days-to-regularity","category-beginnings","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}