{"id":405,"date":"2013-02-01T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/?p=405"},"modified":"2023-09-24T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:41:44","slug":"when-is-a-date-not-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/when-is-a-date-not-a-date\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a date not a date?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CheesyI\u2019ve written myself into an interesting position for the current chapter. Well, I say I\u2019ve <\/em>done it, what I should say is that my characters have driven to this point. It\u2019s not exactly a dead end or a massive hole, but it is an interesting situation.<\/p>\n

My lead, Paul, finds himself out on a date, which isn\u2019t actually a date \u2013 or at least, he says it\u2019s not a date, which is the same thing, more or less.<\/p>\n

So, my question is, when is a date not a date? And what, exactly, does one do on a not-date? I had a not-date in book one, but that was very different. That not-date was about providing \u2018cover\u2019, and Paul and Lily were already friends so it was more like two friends spending an evening together. But this not-date I have to write now isn\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n

In this situation, the next girl on Paul\u2019s \u2018list\u2019 (now there\u2019s an interesting titbit about the nature of this second book in the series) turns up at his door and suggested they get to know each other a bit before\u2026 Well, let\u2019s not give too much away, now shall we.<\/p>\n

So, in essence, one character thinks this is a \u2018proper\u2019 date, while the other is adamant it\u2019s not. One thinks it\u2019s her chance to form a relationship, or at least a friendship with attractive potential benefits, while the other thinks it\u2019s just a prelude to a booty call, and a booty call he\u2019s not that bothered about in the first place.<\/p>\n

I guess we\u2019ll just have to see where the two of them take me. I do know that the first stop is a quiet pub for a shared bowl of cheesy chips. And you can\u2019t say fairer than that in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written myself into an interesting position for the current chapter. Well, I say I\u2019ve done it, what I should say is that my characters have driven to this point. It\u2019s not exactly a dead end or a massive hole, but it is an interesting situation. My lead, Paul, finds himself out on a date, which isn\u2019t actually a date \u2013 or at least, he says it\u2019s not a date, which is the same thing, more or less. So, my question is, when is a date not a date? And what, exactly, does one do on a not-date? I had a not-date in book one, but that was very different. That not-date was about providing \u2018cover\u2019, and Paul and Lily were already friends so it was more like two friends spending an evening together. But this not-date I have to write now isn\u2019t like that. In this situation, the next girl on Paul\u2019s \u2018list\u2019 (now there\u2019s an interesting titbit about the nature of this second book in the series) turns up at his door and suggested they get to know each other a bit before\u2026 Well, let\u2019s not give too much away, now shall we. So, in essence, one character thinks this is a \u2018proper\u2019 date, while the other is adamant it\u2019s not. One thinks it\u2019s her chance to form a relationship, or at least a friendship with attractive potential benefits, while the other thinks it\u2019s just a prelude to a booty call, and a booty call he\u2019s not that bothered about in the first place. I guess we\u2019ll just have to see where the two of them take me. I do know that the first stop is a quiet pub for a shared bowl of cheesy chips. And you can\u2019t say fairer than that in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}