{"id":297,"date":"2014-06-06T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-06-06T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:11:39","slug":"a-real-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/a-real-book\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one year anniversary of the day I sat down and started writing is coming up at the end of the month. I'm going to do something special for it... haven't decided what yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I'm honestly worried about this sudden, new obsession - because that's what writing is for me now. Is it a symptom of something insidious, like a brain tumour? Seriously... I went from writing approximately zero words a year to 400k (over my combined projects). By the time it's exactly one year (June 28th) I will probably have hit 425k.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the plan was to publish Caged and then wait a few months before starting Spires. What ended up happening was that I wrote the first three chapters of the sequel before I published the first book.<\/p>\n<p>Guys, I'm already working on the third in my head and I'm still about ten chapters out from even finishing the second.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I caught the writing \"bug\"?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the funniest reactions when I have a friend over and they pick up the paperback copy of Caged I have here is: \"This... is a real book.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yes. It's a real book. This is what I meant when I said I wrote a book. :)<\/p>\n<p>I'm also rather enjoying reading everyone's reactions to it, positive and negative. It's been a pretty far-out experience so far.<\/p>\n<p>I can't wait to finish Spires...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one year anniversary of the day I sat down and started writing is coming up at the end of the month. I&#8217;m going to do something special for it&#8230; haven&#8217;t decided what yet. Sometimes I&#8217;m honestly worried about this sudden, new obsession &#8211; because that&#8217;s what writing is for me now. Is it a symptom of something insidious, like a brain tumour? Seriously&#8230; I went from writing approximately zero words a year to 400k (over my combined projects). By the time it&#8217;s exactly one year (June 28th) I will probably have hit 425k. Originally, the plan was to publish &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Real Book\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/a-real-book\/#more-297\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Real Book\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[95,5,21],"tags":[112,22,10],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-my-life","category-writing-2","tag-obsession","tag-words","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":282,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/arr-matey\/","url_meta":{"origin":297,"position":0},"title":"Arr matey!","author":"Bey","date":"May 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"People find it hi-lar-ious that I wrote a book about gay pirates. 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