{"id":4313,"date":"2015-03-30T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2015-03-30T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:55:35","slug":"well-shiznit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/03\/30\/well-shiznit\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, shiznit."},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea that I originally thought<\/a> I would use for the Jupiter Challenge — that of the girl finding her origins in the mirror world — dates from 1997, when I was 19. Thus it’s three years too recent for consideration, as story ideas used in the challenge must have been generated at age 16 or before.<\/p>\n

In other news, I have unearthed my trove of story outlines and discovered some alternative ideas that I did indeed think up before 16.<\/p>\n

There’s the one where the girl writes a creation myth and makes a world, which she then enters, where she is worshipped as a god. She has to defeat her personified fear of death, which is causing people to sicken and die.<\/p>\n

There’s the one where the boy has a magic ring inhabited by the soul of his dead aunt. He\u00a0 and she join forces to defeat someone who yanks them from Earth into a magical world because she wants the ring.<\/p>\n

There’s the one about the princess who’s white as snow, red and blood and black as ebony, but never at the same time, more like a series of three different appearances and corresponding personalities, and her search through a bunch of fairy tale tropes to find a cure for her condition.<\/p>\n

There’s also a bunch of deliberately pointless quest narratives in which the sought-for object is never fully elucidated or centralized as much as the relationships between the people on the quest.<\/p>\n

Hmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea that I originally thought I would use for the Jupiter Challenge — that of the girl finding her origins in the mirror world — dates from 1997, when I was 19. Thus it’s three years too recent for consideration, as story ideas used in the challenge must have been generated at age 16… Continue reading Well, shiznit.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}