{"id":596,"date":"2015-04-21T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2015-04-21T22:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:50:44","slug":"progress-on-novel-revision-plus-missbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/progress-on-novel-revision-plus-missbee\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on novel revision plus MissBee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOTE: this is a bit of a “what am I up to” post, so don’t expect fireworks \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

My revision is underway. Man it is a tough task. I find myself constantly second-guessing my readers and doubting myself.<\/p>\n

Chapter two, originally my first chapter, proved fairly easy to revise\/edit. It had been through the process several times before and I felt reasonably confident about it.  This is where I begin my second story stream. The novel actually has about half a dozen story streams in it, all of which are colliding. To some extent Steven Erikson is my model. I love the complexity of his tales.<\/p>\n

Chapter three “The Lock” has been extremely painful to edit. I realised that I had put far too much “clever” description in there that simply slowed down the pace too much. Cutting that was difficult because I love some of those paragraphs, but it had to be done. This chapter returns us to the actions of the Wizard\/Pilot Verdant P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  NOTE: this is a bit of a “what am I up to” post, so don’t expect fireworks \ud83d\ude42 My revision is underway. Man it is a tough task. I find myself constantly second-guessing my readers and doubting myself. Chapter two, originally my first chapter, proved fairly easy to revise\/edit. It had been through the process several times before and I felt reasonably confident about it.  This is where I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,22,4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-shadytales","tag-painting","tag-tempting-in-shade","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}