{"id":1025,"date":"2011-01-26T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:45:23","slug":"and-the-speed-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"And the Speed Bumps…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I warned y’all, the arrival of comments from Agent or Editor (or both) would result in a diversion of time from Book IV back to Crisis of Vision<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday I got my agent’s comments on Crisis<\/em> (there’s a chapter he thinks is weaker than the rest, but Editor isn’t there yet) and a heads-up that Editor was about halfway through and had found things she wanted to excise.\u00a0\u00a0 So although I’m not starting on any fixes until I have all the comments in, some attention has shifted to that book and not this book.\u00a0 Thus downgrading (as the investment industry puts it) the projected output this week.<\/p>\n

Speed-bump #2 is the report I’m having to produce.\u00a0 It’s going very slowly because I would much rather write the book, thanks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it must be done, so I’m forcing myself not to work on the book until it is<\/em> done.\u00a0\u00a0 Grumping from me and the book both.\u00a0\u00a0 Book and I spent yesterday evading the report and 2000 more words of book emerged, but only about two paragraphs of report.\u00a0 Today has reversed that ratio.\u00a0 Grump.<\/p>\n

Terie Garrison and I will be involved in a “race” starting February 1, along with several other writers.\u00a0\u00a0 The idea is that each person sets a personal goal for the month, and then we “race” toward that goal…the winner gets to his\/her own goal first.\u00a0\u00a0 Terie and I did this last summer and it helped both of us; we now have other runners in the race, and Terie found a delightful counter-graphic for us.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of us (at least) are taking racehorse names. Terie, who’s doing the heavy lifting, chose Secretariat; I’m Desert Orchid (the famous steeplechaser, for those who don’t know. )<\/p>\n

You’re all welcome to come to the grandstand and cheer…find out all the details at Terie’s LiveJournal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I warned y’all, the arrival of comments from Agent or Editor (or both) would result in a diversion of time from Book IV back to Crisis of Vision.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday I got my agent’s comments on Crisis (there’s a chapter he thinks is weaker than the rest, but Editor isn’t there yet) and a heads-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[112,20,107],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}