{"id":38780,"date":"2020-12-28T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38780"},"modified":"2021-01-01T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T02:32:31","slug":"a-final-wall4-update-for-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/12\/28\/a-final-wall4-update-for-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Final WALL#4 Update for the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38205\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FantasyHive_HelenLoweFEATURE_image-300x218.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FantasyHive_HelenLoweFEATURE_image-300x218.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FantasyHive_HelenLoweFEATURE_image-150x109.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FantasyHive_HelenLoweFEATURE_image.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>On December 31 I&#8217;ll fulfil what is now becoming an end-of-year tradition and post the ten most-read posts of this year here on my own <strong><em>&#8220;&#8230; on Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;my own&#8221; because I do blog other places as well, chiefly on the <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> on the first of every month, as well as the occasional guest spot like the <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy-hive.co.uk\/2020\/07\/women-in-sff-author-spotlight-helen-lowe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women in SFF interview on Fantasy Hive<\/a> earlier this year. But yep, the end-of-year roundup is all for the home blog and checking out what m&#8217;visitors here (yep, all of you!) were into in 2020. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Before we get there, though, I decided I couldn&#8217;t really windup the year without another update on WALL#4 progress &#8212; and YES, it is progressing! This year I&#8217;ve wrapped up another major section of the book, think equivalent to the &#8216;Bride of Blood&#8217; in <em>Daughter of Blood,<\/em> and another that&#8217;s closer in size and scope to the Grayharbor section in DAUGHTER.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/>Then (deep breath) shortly before Christmas, I commenced writing the intro into what is effectively the endgame of the book and series. I say &#8216;effectively&#8217;, because as I&#8217;ve indicated before, there is a lot of wrap up to do for this series. Nonetheless these are the sections that definitely wrap it up. And although I hope this will not prove to be wildly optimistic (touches wood, takes an even deeper breath, and casts a wary eye toward the muses), I am aiming for the middle of the year to reach the endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, this post is to assure you that I am writing on, and the story <em>is<\/em> rolling toward its close. Good news, huh &#8212; if not quite the best, which will only come when its done. (Of course!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and slip in a few more &#8220;Inside the Writing Life&#8221; posts for you, too, while I&#8217;m getting there, since the most-read statistics suggest you like &#8217;em. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 31 I&#8217;ll fulfil what is now becoming an end-of-year tradition and post the ten most-read posts of this year here on my own &#8220;&#8230; on Anything, Really&#8221; blog. I say &#8220;my own&#8221; because I do blog other places as well, chiefly on the Supernatural Underground on the first of every month, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38780"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38791,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions\/38791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}