From time to time, we’ll be adding Splinters into the mix — a Splinter being a bit of story or novel that for one reason or another was never completed.<\/p>\n
The reasons that a story or novel is left incomplete might be anything from a sense that the plot wasn’t going anywhere, or that the approach to the narrative was from the wrong angle, or the realization that while, yes, there was a story there, it wasn’t sufficiently interesting to pursue. Life is too short to write books you don’t love.<\/p>\n
In the spirit, then, of testing that the various bits of the site are working as they ought, I offer a Splinter: the first two chapters of a novel the working title of which was, it says here, The Cards of Fortunate Destiny<\/em> (surely, I could not<\/em> have been serious). It, such as it is, was written out to nine chapters, in about 20,000 words, in 2003.<\/p>\n So, then: Splinter: The Cards of Fortunate Destiny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From time to time, we’ll be adding Splinters into the mix — a Splinter being a bit of story or novel that for one reason or another was never completed. The reasons that a story or novel is left incomplete might be anything from a sense that the plot wasn’t going anywhere, or that the … Continue reading Splinters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}