{"id":13923,"date":"2025-06-21T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2025-06-21T04:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:43:04","slug":"stretching-my-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13923","title":{"rendered":"Stretching My Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stretching my legs at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>After months of writing my monster hunter stories and getting a half-dozen of them accepted for publishing, I&#8217;m back to writing pure science fiction again.  I didn&#8217;t know how much I&#8217;d love doing the real world fantasy I&#8217;ve been doing.  I hesitate to call it urban fantasy because only one of them was in a city, and that one had no magic it.  Just the more granular magic of John Moses Browning.<\/p>\n<p>But this week I&#8217;m writing science fiction again, and it feels like I&#8217;m wrapping myself up in an old friend.  First I&#8217;ve been working on an actual fan story.  Transformers.  The toys that turn into cars and such.  Not the power convertors.  It&#8217;s a redo of a story I did decades ago, and I&#8217;m having fun.  And second I&#8217;m working on a little story about an alien family trying to survive in interstellar space.  And by alien, I mean each member is part of another alien race.  A mixed up family trying to survive the crisis that occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little cleansing of the creative palette.  I&#8217;m enjoying it a lot.  It&#8217;s just fun to do the jam again.  To stretch my legs and play in the stars.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stretching my legs at the moment. After months of writing my monster hunter stories and getting a half-dozen of them accepted for publishing, I&#8217;m back to writing pure science fiction again. I didn&#8217;t know how much I&#8217;d love doing[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13923\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13924,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}