{"id":581,"date":"2011-03-30T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=581"},"modified":"2011-03-30T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:58:27","slug":"silence-is-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2011\/03\/30\/silence-is-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence is Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"

It passed pretty much unnoticed amongst the other projects<\/a> going on around here, but I wrote a short story the other week, and it’s up on LabLit: Silence is Golden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gratifyingly, Tania Hershman<\/a> asked me on Twitter whether there were any more in the tank. I explained I was trying to write a novel–and maybe writing it as a series of short stories was the way to finally complete it. My two main characters have been stuck in a pub in Daresbury for over a year now, and I need some way of getting them out and back to advancing the plot. Maybe a short story for each chapter would do it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to Silence is Golden<\/a>. Before you ask, no it’s not based on a true event, although it is inspired<\/em> by one. And indeed, it would fit well into the plot of the second<\/em> novel I’ve got planned for that series, not to be confused with the other series of books that I’ve also got planned, and in fact wrote about eight chapters of several years ago, before I realized that I should start again (my writing, despite the construction of sentences such as these, has improved immensely in that time).<\/p>\n

So, yes. Please remember to check out LabLit, because we have so much more than my writing on there. In the next couple of days there’ll even be the next in our highly irregular series of podcasts. Now, to winkle my characters away from their pints…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It passed pretty much unnoticed amongst the other projects going on around here, but I wrote a short story the other week, and it’s up on LabLit: Silence is Golden. Gratifyingly, Tania Hershman asked me on Twitter whether there were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[106,107],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-wibbling","tag-lablit","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}