Agent had some worthwhile comments on Book IV which sent it back to me for more work.\u00a0\u00a0 This will result in an added chapter early in the book and the “perking up” (my term, not Agent’s)\u00a0 of some fairly large chunks considered “flat” as well as showing one character more active and tough than before (hadn’t realized that character had softened that much between books.) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of that will involve shortening, and some will involve lengthening, as usual.\u00a0\u00a0 Agent has contacted Editor, who gave permission for an extension to do the work he suggested, pointing out that we could send her the version I sent him today, or a better version in ten days.\u00a0 (Agent has had the book since January 20 and I appreciate the fast, analytical reading Agent gave it. )<\/p>\n
So I’m back at work on Book IV,\u00a0 having started on Book V last night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Already 1700 words into the new chapter, after fixing things recommended in\u00a0 Chapters 1-3.\u00a0\u00a0 (And Agent didn’t call at break of day, so this is actually a solid afternoon’s work.)<\/p>\n
Music for the work right now is Stanford’s orchestral music.\u00a0\u00a0 The Bach organ music I had in already was too sombre and not right for the first part of the book, sep. not the new chapter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arcolin is not a\u00a0 Bach mind.<\/p>\n
Back at it.\u00a0 I’d like to finish this chapter tonight.\u00a0 It’s fascinating to me that when I go into a period of time (be it an hour, day, week, or quarter year)\u00a0 there’s always stuff there waiting to be written about.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case, I’m finding out why a certain count’s father hated Kieri (or one of the reasons) and why this count doesn’t hate Arcolin and wants a favor from him.\u00a0\u00a0 All sorts of details are unfolding that I didn’t have in the original text but are compatible.\u00a0\u00a0 There will have to be adjustments down the line, though.\u00a0 If Count Halar’s son does<\/em> go to the Company as a junior squire, then he will have to be there later.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agent had some worthwhile comments on Book IV which sent it back to me for more work.\u00a0\u00a0 This will result in an added chapter early in the book and the “perking up” (my term, not Agent’s)\u00a0 of some fairly large chunks considered “flat” as well as showing one character more active and tough than before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45,5],"tags":[106,20,107],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464"}],"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=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}