{"id":4804,"date":"2016-09-06T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2016-09-06T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:38:58","slug":"where-the-tracks-run-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/where-the-tracks-run-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Tracks Run Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Train<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a decent novel. I\u2019m sure of that. My current draft of The Keep of Ages<\/em> shapes up and smells like a real book, with the right characters, some surprising twists, and theme concepts that intrigue me. Yet something\u2019s missing. I feel it between the lines, part promise and part absence. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m looking for, but I know I need to look.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m stepping off the tracks into the wild grass. This is an unnerving place, where the only guide is questions, and they aren\u2019t clearly formed. I don’t know how long it will take, or how to make progress, or how to accept that it doesn\u2019t feel productive. I have to risk undoing what I\u2019ve drafted so far. Even so, I\u2019m going. There\u2019s no other way, because the ideas I\u2019m looking for aren\u2019t on the tracks. If they were, I\u2019d have found them by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a decent novel. I\u2019m sure of that. My current draft of The Keep of Ages shapes up and smells like a real book, with the right characters, some surprising twists, and theme concepts that intrigue me. Yet something\u2019s missing. I feel it between the lines, part promise and part absence. I don\u2019t know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[891,37],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","tag-keep-of-ages","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}