{"id":1086,"date":"2015-10-28T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:42:55","slug":"an-update-on-my-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"An Update on My Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends,<\/p>\n<p>A quick update here and a reminder that, while I&#8217;ve only been updating the web site every few months, I do check in with everyone 3 or 4 times a week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spencerbaumauthor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Last month Runtastic released a new Story Run I wrote for them titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runtastic.com\/storyrunning\" target=\"_blank\">The Scorch Trials: Hunted<\/a>. This story, written in partnership with 20th Century Fox, is set in\u00a0the universe of The Scorch Trials movie, and allows you, the user, to become a character in the story via the Runtastic app!<\/li>\n<li>The Tetradome Run novel is still chugging along. I&#8217;m working on it\u00a04 -5 hours a day, every day, and it&#8217;s getting closer! Long-time readers of mine know that when I get deep into the final drafts of a project, the web site goes quiet. As always, I&#8217;m grateful to everyone who checks in for updates, and I&#8217;m reporting the same status update I&#8217;ve had for months now:<strong><em> Hang in there! Almost done!<\/em> <\/strong>The only way I know how to write a novel to the standards you&#8217;ve come to expect from me is to work and work at it, draft after draft, changing plot-lines and characters every go-round, throwing out tens of thousands of words from one draft to the next, and repeating the process until\u00a0I&#8217;m happy from start to finish. Tetradome Run is the most intricately plotted novel I&#8217;ve ever written (and also the longest).\u00a0It will be worth the wait, I promise!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends, A quick update here and a reminder that, while I&#8217;ve only been updating the web site every few months, I do check in with everyone 3 or 4 times a week on the Facebook page. Last month Runtastic released a new Story Run I wrote for them titled The Scorch Trials: Hunted. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spencerbaum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}