{"id":1186,"date":"2011-04-29T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2011-04-29T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:08:01","slug":"book-iv-is-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Book IV Is 80&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 80,000 words now, that is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t count the side notes, the entries on the &#8220;Ideas&#8221; file (where I keep reminders of what this book is supposed to be covering, and those moments of sudden inspiration that don&#8217;t come in connected fictional prose.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is almost the halfway mark of the final version, assuming it to be similar to <em>Echoes<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost certainly not the halfway mark of the first draft, or several intermediate drafts, as the length will go up and down with revisions.\u00a0 In total, counting the parts left out in each revision, the new writing going into this one will probably exceed 200,000.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which means another 120,000 to go.\u00a0\u00a0 (Or maybe not, since some has already sloughed off the first 80K.\u00a0 But over 100,000 for sure.)<\/p>\n<p>The new contract has my due dates as Feb 1 (I&#8217;ve actually beaten the contract due dates for the first three, because I had a 14 month turnover and got them all in on just about a 12 month turnover) and I hope to turn this one and the next in on or before Jan 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 80,000 words now, that is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t count the side notes, the entries on the &#8220;Ideas&#8221; file (where I keep reminders of what this book is supposed to be covering, and those moments of sudden inspiration that don&#8217;t come in connected fictional prose.)<\/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":[20,107],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}