{"id":149,"date":"2025-02-08T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:07:18","slug":"grey-is-not-my-colour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/grey-is-not-my-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Is Not My Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This story was intended as YA novel, but it just didn&#8217;t really work that way. Or maybe it did; I don&#8217;t know. The intention is there &#8211; for most of the story, Franka is 16 and there is a little fantasy (superpower) twist, but the story might be too heavy on depression and dealing with trauma to be a decent YA thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/life-of-crime\/\" title=\"Chapter 1\">Chapter 1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The backstory of this story is probably just as long as that of The Life You Have Chosen; I think I invented Franka and Marion (who doesn&#8217;t feature in Chapter 1) when I was maybe 15. The funny bit is that at first, the hero of the story was supposed to be Marion, with Franka as the narrator but also &#8216;just&#8217; a supporting character. (It was like this in the first few short stories about the girls.) When I finally got all the inspiration I needed and started writing, though, it didn&#8217;t turn out that way. Franka took over, possibly because when I was writing about her, I was myself struggling with depression (which was not helped by the covid pandemic raging all around us), and it just all ended the way it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you will like it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was intended as YA novel, but it just didn&#8217;t really work that way. Or maybe it did; I don&#8217;t know. The intention is there &#8211; for most of the story, Franka is 16 and there is a little fantasy (superpower) twist, but the story might be too heavy on depression and dealing with &#8230; <a title=\"Grey Is Not My Colour\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/grey-is-not-my-colour\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Grey Is Not My Colour\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrapecharova.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}