I had a restless night.<\/p>\n
I agreed to watch my mother’s dog for the weekend, and everything would have went well, but we had a thunderstorm at about one o’clock.\u00a0 As is usually the case with dogs and storms, the old girl lost her mind, and started barking.\u00a0 Every time I thought she’d have stopped, I was wrong.\u00a0 Finally, at about three o’clock, I brought her into my room so she’d feel safe.<\/p>\n
I have the hardest time trying to get to sleep when I’m consciously trying to.\u00a0 My thoughts drift everywhere, and they finally had me thinking about characters in my books.\u00a0 How would they react if they couldn’t get any rest?<\/p>\n
My main character has experienced much more than I ever could.\u00a0 He’s a former military man, having worked for the King’s army.\u00a0 His sleep patterns are a lot like mine.\u00a0 If even the slightest noise happens to alert him, he’ll wake up.\u00a0 It’s something that he’s grown used to – it makes it almost more troubling when he’s sleeping comfortably, which is the opposite problem for me tonight.\u00a0 Then again, he’s had a lot more to worry about than me.\u00a0 If you’re interested, check out the sample on Amazon: http:\/\/tiny.cc\/hnfhk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a restless night. I agreed to watch my mother’s dog for the weekend, and everything would have went well, but we had a thunderstorm at about one o’clock.\u00a0 As is usually the case with dogs and storms, the old girl lost her mind, and started barking.\u00a0 Every time I thought she’d have stopped, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-3w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}