“You killed her!”<\/p>\n
Yeah, that’s right,\u00a0 I have no self-control, and now Book IV has a first paragraph.\u00a0\u00a0 It may not be the real first paragraph (the actual start of\u00a0\u00a0 Book III isn’t what I first wrote) but you have to admit it’s attention-getting (and I wrote it early this morning before the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords…hours before that happened.\u00a0 Now it looks…too related. )<\/p>\n
Some of the rest of the day was spent in the garden, planting onions (only one bunch of sets),\u00a0 sugar-snap peas,\u00a0 radishes, and carrots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you want until after the last possible frost, around here,\u00a0 these early garden plants die in the heat…the last frost and 100F can co-occur within 48 hours.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So you try to get them in the ground before a predicted winter rain (they said tonight–not happening yet)\u00a0 and ahead of a predicted serious freeze (Tuesday night) so they won’t have sprouted yet but the soil will hold moisture.\u00a0\u00a0 Some missed seeds of last year’s onions brought themselves up in the east bed–I planted more around them.<\/p>\n
Book IV has, in addition to the paragraph I managed this morning (planting really needed to be done and I hadn’t been out, really out, in awhile–hence only one paragraph)\u00a0 the 10,000 words taken out of Book III.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That 10,000 words doesn’t have a good beginning in it, though.\u00a0\u00a0 So we’ll see what develops.<\/p>\n
My agent is reading Book III this weekend, I hope with delight, but he usually has Things To Say.\u00a0\u00a0 Editor’s Say trumps Agent’s Say, but I listen to both of them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I finished the Dramatis Personae thing for III today as well, and printed out the now-inconveniently-long “Names” file.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It has only some of the names from the original books, but is supposed to have every name in the new books.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out it didn’t, and I’m going to have to change a name in III to accord with Kings.<\/em> If I would write simple, short books with only a handful of characters, I wouldn’t have this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You killed her!” Yeah, that’s right,\u00a0 I have no self-control, and now Book IV has a first paragraph.\u00a0\u00a0 It may not be the real first paragraph (the actual start of\u00a0\u00a0 Book III isn’t what I first wrote) but you have to admit it’s attention-getting (and I wrote it early this morning before the shooting of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}