{"id":709,"date":"2013-05-20T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-05-20T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:36:03","slug":"the-game-of-snooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/2013\/05\/20\/the-game-of-snooker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Snooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently completed the latest in the &#8216;Lower Methil Annexe&#8217; series &#8211; &#8216;Bathsheba and the Grapes&#8217;, I thought that it was time to work on the next story &#8211; &#8216;The Game of Snooker&#8217;.<br \/>\nI write my stories using a programme called &#8216;Scrivener&#8217; (Recommended! They let you try it for free. I liked it, and bought it.) As I complete one part of the story, I update it on <em><strong>tachras<\/strong><\/em>. Be it a chapter, or just a paragraph or two, the story will gradually appear. If you want to wait till the story is complete, do so by all means. I will let you know when it is finished. But if you wonder how a story is written, and want to see it, grammar and spelling mistakes and all, then feel free to follow its progress. As I re-read the story before I start writing the next section, you will find editing, re-writes, and sundry changes between one week and the next.<br \/>\nSometimes I write a lot, sometimes very little, and often, I am doing research and nothing visible may appear (todays research covered Ali MacGraw, Linda Cristal, the High Chaparral and culottes &#8211; all relevant to the plot, believe it or not!)<\/p>\n<p>Amy comments will be read, and may even be answered!<\/p>\n<p>Mesklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently completed the latest in the &#8216;Lower Methil Annexe&#8217; series &#8211; &#8216;Bathsheba and the Grapes&#8217;, I thought that it was time to work on the next story &#8211; &#8216;The Game of Snooker&#8217;. I write my stories using a programme called &#8216;Scrivener&#8217; (Recommended! They let you try it for free. I liked it, and bought [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","category-tachras","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}