{"id":2804,"date":"2013-12-15T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2013-12-15T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T00:40:12","slug":"finding-the-worlds-victoria-12152013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Wor(l)ds \u2013 Victoria \u2013 [12\/15\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fantasy_book_by_patrizianofi-d4luv0l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2805\" alt=\"fantasy_book_by_patrizianofi-d4luv0l\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fantasy_book_by_patrizianofi-d4luv0l.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fantasy_book_by_patrizianofi-d4luv0l.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fantasy_book_by_patrizianofi-d4luv0l-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been a writer for as long as I can remember. I don\u2019t remember a time when I wasn\u2019t writing <i>something<\/i>, although my earlier efforts are of\u2026dubious quality. The thing is, all those years writing leads to a lot of half finished projects that have either fizzled out partway through or have \u2013 and this is the most annoying \u2013 hit stalls. Blockades that I simply can\u2019t seem to get my characters over under or around.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently finding this particularly frustrating as I have not one, not two, but <i>three<\/i> exceptionally promising manuscripts that are completely stalled. I have a clockwork woman hesitating at the doors of\u00a0 gothic mansion and no idea whatsoever what she may or may not find on the other side, I have a concubine about to plunge into a death-like sleep within the closed walls of a funerary temple with absolutely no idea of what\u2019s going to happen to her when she does wake up (I managed to keep her alive this far, which was no easy task, and now that she\u2019s alive, she\u2019s\u2026stuck in the temple and I don\u2019t know how to get her out), and one Fairy Princess who\u2019s betrothed was just slaughtered by her bodyguard\u2026that one at least is finished, in that it has a beginning a middle and an end,\u2026but it needs major fleshing out (there\u2019s a war in there somewhere, which needs strategic planning out and the kind of writing I simply don\u2019t do because I am <i>so<\/i> far from an expert or an enthusiast on tactical or military history, I may be doing some recruiting for research help on that one)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Too many ideas in my head\u2026and utterly no idea what to do with any of them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019m not planning on getting off the ship a whole lot on this upcoming contract, because one of these walls is going to shatter and then maybe <i>finally<\/i> I\u2019ll get a few more pages worth reading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Writer\u2019s block\u2026ugh\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been a writer for as long as I can remember. I don\u2019t remember a time when I wasn\u2019t writing something, although my earlier efforts are of\u2026dubious quality. 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