I decided, part way through the design process of the story, to have instructions on finding the treasure hidden in a poem instead of a conventional map with an ‘X’ on it.\u00a0 It sounded like such a great idea, but now I’m tasked with coming up with poem-like prose (the instructions are in another poem, so, thankfully, don’t have to be perfect).\u00a0 I’ve struggled with coming up with the proper words.\u00a0 It needs to be obscure, but not so obscure that the clues can’t be solved.\u00a0 It’s taken me a while (I’m moving much more slowly than I’d like, I’ve only got around 40 pages (8K words) written so far), but I’m starting to make progress.<\/p>\n
Part of that progress has been actually working with a map.\u00a0 With the help I mentioned earlier<\/a>, I’ve got a map from the era when the land was originally settled (by Europeans, of course).\u00a0 That map, coupled with many discussions with my consultants, has given me enough ideas to get about two thirds the lines I need.\u00a0 I have ideas for the last third, just need to find ways to actually type when I sit in front of the computer with my hands on the keyboard.\u00a0 If I hadn’t already shown that I can write, I’d have a serious crisis of conscious, but, fortunately, my massive ego shields me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I decided, part way through the design process of the story, to have instructions on finding the treasure hidden in a poem instead of a conventional map with an ‘X’ on it.\u00a0 It sounded like such a great idea, but now I’m tasked with coming up with poem-like prose (the instructions are in another poem, … Continue reading “Poetic map”<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treasure-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}