{"id":481,"date":"2023-12-16T22:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2023-12-16T22:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:13:48","slug":"first-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"First Draft!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A quick little update to say I finished a first draft for the first time in many years. I&#8217;m not sure if it will see the light of publication, but it was a story that&#8217;d been in my head for upwards of 7, close to 8 years. After I outlined the full book in 2020 at the outset of the pandemic, I finally made a resolution this year to write it. And I did. A full damn novel, at that. :) I even updated my website about the angsty smuff, reunited lovers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My writer besties and I code named it&#8230;<em>Paris<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"Seine River in Paris with Eiffel Tower on a sunny day.\" class=\"wp-image-482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-1024x693.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Paris-Photo-Eiffel-Tower-and-Seine-2048x1387.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seine River in Paris with Eiffel Tower on a sunny day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick little update to say I finished a first draft for the first time in many years. I&#8217;m not sure if it will see the light of publication, but it was a story that&#8217;d been in my head for upwards of 7, close to 8 years. After I outlined the full book in 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[6,7,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicojaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}