{"id":158,"date":"2022-12-29T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2023-03-25T00:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T00:14:56","slug":"end-of-the-year-and-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/end-of-the-year-and-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the year and looking forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Two copies of the book Secrets of the Night Forest in front of a winter diorama.\" class=\"wp-image-159\" width=\"410\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n-1140x1425.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The end of the year is typically a time to both look back at what we accomplished and to set our sights on the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I wrote and illustrated a picture book, something I never thought I&#8217;d do. What started as a challenge then grew into a passion project and finally became something I&#8217;m proud of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I wrote a short story for an anthology and got accepted. It&#8217;s a retelling of an old Slovenian folk tale, with an added wizard-like person, a kresnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And lastly, after a year-long hiatus, I continued writing my time travel novel. I&#8217;m using something akin to the snowflake method to push through and write the barebones story. It finally helped me to decide on an ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the future, I got inspired by HB90 and started planning for the next quarter only. So some of my goals for Q1 are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>finish formatting Where is my Basket? and publish it,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do some developmental editing on my time travel novel and bring the word count to the final goal,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>participate in a local short story competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish you a happy and successful 2023!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year is typically a time to both look back at what we accomplished and to set our sights on the future. This year I wrote and illustrated a picture book, something I never thought I&#8217;d do. What started as a challenge then grew into a passion project and finally became something I&#8217;m proud of. Then I wrote a short story for an anthology and got accepted. It&#8217;s a retelling of an old Slovenian folk tale, with an added wizard-like person, a kresnik. And lastly, after a year-long hiatus, I continued writing my time travel novel. I&#8217;m using something akin to the snowflake method to push through and write the barebones story. It finally helped me to decide on an ending. As for the future, I got inspired by HB90 and started planning for the next quarter only. So some of my goals for Q1 are: I wish you a happy and successful 2023!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[18,17,13,12],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-picture-book","tag-secrets-of-the-night-forest","tag-update","tag-writing"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/322178469_187422230608182_2872599773003284093_n.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Robert Norok","author_link":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertnorok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}