{"id":17,"date":"2009-05-18T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-05-12T04:55:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:55:32","slug":"finally-a-readable-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/finally-a-readable-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally A Readable Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1ZX8XqPPdSU\/ShDEwJQCedI\/AAAAAAAAAEc\/RiRV29hZn20\/s1600-h\/script.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336981889829992914\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 241px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1ZX8XqPPdSU\/ShDEwJQCedI\/AAAAAAAAAEc\/RiRV29hZn20\/s400\/script.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This past week I finally nailed down the first truly &#8220;readable&#8221;draft of &#8220;The Unknowns.&#8221; It took four passes at it, but I think its finally in a state where I can bring others opinions in and receive feedback. I gotta tell you, it&#8217;s quite gratifying to look at what I&#8217;ve finished and see it in printed form, sitting on a table.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts on this draft are that it is essentially the story I set to tell in the very beginning. It&#8217;s both funny and scary, while feeling pretty endearing at the same time. It feels like quite a jump forward from my first pass at a finished script a few short years ago (thank you Stephen King). So, now I just have to get it into the hands of a few well trusted friends and my agent and we&#8217;ll see where things go from there. I&#8217;m so tempted to get started on the actual comic, but my better judgment tells me to wait awhile.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I have a story about a boy and a monster to tell, and portraits to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I finally nailed down the first truly &#8220;readable&#8221;draft of &#8220;The Unknowns.&#8221; It took four passes at it, but I think its finally in a state where I can bring others opinions in and receive feedback. I gotta tell you, it&#8217;s quite gratifying to look at what I&#8217;ve finished and see it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adamville","category-graphic-novel","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qGxI-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}