{"id":9724,"date":"2015-10-28T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2015-10-28T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:13:38","slug":"state-of-the-trout-some-news-mostly-reassurance-that-im-still-working-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9724","title":{"rendered":"State of the Trout: &#8220;Some news, mostly reassurance that I&#8217;m still working&#8221; edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody in Trout Nation! I&#8217;m finally catching up with all the work I got behind on while I was on vacation. But I&#8217;ve still got other work that I&#8217;ve got to do in order to get <em>The Baby<\/em> to you guys on its November 10 release date. So, in the meantime here&#8217;s some stuff that&#8217;s going on:<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s a new chapter of <em>The Afflicted<\/em>.<\/strong> If you haven&#8217;t been reading my free New Adult horror serial on Wattpad, Halloween is the perfect time to start. I believe you have to sign up for a Wattpad account to access the content, but it&#8217;s worth it because there are some great free books on there. You can read <em>The Afflicted<\/em> \u00a0from the beginning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/17730901-the-afflicted\">here<\/a>, or read the latest chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/179255920-the-afflicted-chapter-19\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing exercise while I was bored led to <em>The Boss<\/em> from Neil&#8217;s POV.<\/strong> Every once in a while on Tumblr, I&#8217;ll get \u00a0an anonymous message asking me if I&#8217;d ever consider writing <i>The Boss\u00a0<\/i>from Neil&#8217;s POV. Now, I&#8217;m not going to pretend that I&#8217;m getting hundreds of messages here. It&#8217;s probably the same anon over and over and over again. But the other day I was really bored and kind of in a funk and I couldn&#8217;t concentrate on anything, so I decided I would write the beginning of the first chapter of <em>The Boss<\/em>\u00a0from Neil&#8217;s point of view<a href=\"http:\/\/jennytrout.tumblr.com\/post\/131659433673\/i-wrote-the-boss-fanfic-sort-of\">\u00a0(you can read it here)<\/a>. The response I got \u2014 from anonymous people and not-so-anonymous people \u2014 was that they would like to see more in Neil&#8217;s point of view. So that&#8217;s something I started working on, and hope to release within the next year.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, I said that I couldn&#8217;t understand why authors would write a book, then rewrite the book from another character&#8217;s POV. Then, I took a different stance where I was like &#8220;okay I can see <em>why<\/em> you would want to do that, but isn&#8217;t it really hard? I could never do that!&#8221; Which is why wrote first time the way I did. Two different POV&#8217;s, written at the same time, so I didn&#8217;t have to remember all the little details. Now I&#8217;m doing the exact thing I thought was going to be so dreadfully hard. So we&#8217;ll see how this goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk about the next <em>Buffy<\/em> recap is going to work.<\/strong> Because \u00a0season two ends with a two-part episode (that&#8217;s pretty fast paced), I don&#8217;t necessarily want to leave a break of a full month between the recaps, which is what has sort of been happening. I also don&#8217;t want to do it all in one giant recap, because I&#8217;ll be a lot to read in one sitting. So I&#8217;m going to release two recaps closer together, maybe separated by a couple of days. Some of you were asking about how that would work, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come up with.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much all I&#8217;ve got from the news desk, at least until <em>The Baby<\/em>\u00a0releases. Expect some promo posts \u00a0and hopefully the recaps before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody in Trout Nation! I&#8217;m finally catching up with all the work I got behind on while I was on vacation. But I&#8217;ve still&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9724\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the Trout: &#8220;Some news, mostly reassurance that I&#8217;m still working&#8221; edition<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}