{"id":1031,"date":"2013-08-18T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2013-10-25T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T11:46:11","slug":"chapter-1-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1 Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will still need a few more editing passes, but as of now, <em>Crucible of Heroes<\/em>\u00a0 chapter 1 (<em>The City of Rainbows<\/em>) is complete. It ended up coming to three scenes and just over 12 pages of single-spaced type in 11-point font. So far Crucible of Heroes as a whole is just shy of 9000 words and 470 Kindle &#8220;locations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By <a title=\"Nebula Award - Categories\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nebula_award#Categories\" target=\"_blank\">SWFA standards<\/a> that already puts it over the line into a Novella, with at least six more chapters still to go. So obviously, my initial estimate of 20,000 words is going to be a bit short of the mark. As it looks right now, fifty to sixty thousand is probably more realistic, which will put it well over the word count guidelines for a novella.<\/p>\n<p>So it looks like it&#8217;s official. Although a relatively short one, <em>Crucible of Heroes<\/em> is, in fact, going to be novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will still need a few more editing passes, but as of now, Crucible of Heroes\u00a0 chapter 1 (The City of Rainbows) is complete. It ended up coming to three scenes and just over 12 pages of single-spaced type in 11-point font. So far Crucible of Heroes as a whole is just shy of 9000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=1031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chapter 1 Complete<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning","category-general","category-sanctum-the-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}