{"id":10606,"date":"2005-03-25T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/25\/killing-him-softly\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T01:57:09","slug":"killing-him-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/killing-him-softly\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Him Softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting back to <strong>Twilight<\/strong>.  I was mulling over killing someone this week, and I finally decided to do it.  My antagonist main character had an alter-ego.  The more I thought about it, the more I realized he wasn&#8217;t essential to the book.  I spent a few days letting the subconscious work it over.  I did the find and replaces tonight&#8211;that was the easy part.  Now, as I continue through the book, I have to integrate Merlin and Paul.  There are a few places where I have some clean up to do, and if I miss them, the poor reader will wonder about my planet of origin.  Merlin has enough problems, and I don&#8217;t need to have his personality splinter as well.  I considered it.  The abuse he suffered as an adolescent could have resulted in that, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s essential to the plot.  <\/p>\n<p>Back to the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting back to Twilight. I was mulling over killing someone this week, and I finally decided to do it. My antagonist main character had an alter-ego. The more I thought about it, the more I realized he wasn&#8217;t essential to the book. I spent a few days letting <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/killing-him-softly\/\"><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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twilight"],"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\/10606","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=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}