…is I should be getting an ARC later this week, so the contest is just about ready.<\/p>\n
The other news is that among the author errors was a superbig one I didn’t confess earlier.\u00a0\u00a0 I…um….managed not to finish (and turn in) the map for this volume.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And then, in the chaos of other things, forgot I hadn’t done it, which meant…in the page proofs was the Echoes<\/em> map, not the right map.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I confessed all to the\u00a0 editor who holds open the gates between editorial and production,\u00a0 and instead of just taking the map out of Limits<\/em>,\u00a0 which would have been the easy thing to do,\u00a0 they were able to pry out some extra time for me to work on it, thus saving my bacon and your sanity.\u00a0\u00a0 I cannot express how above-and-beyond this is and I am very, very grateful.<\/p>\n The right map is now done, and I will email the labeled map (labeled in ugly font, because I don’t have the font they used)\u00a0 and an unlabeled map for them to add labels to.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were days spent using the mouse like a pen, touching up the map, adding to the map, and then today was “label day.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had the usual problem with using an old (old!)\u00a0 image-handling softward and asking it to do what it can do, but wasn’t designed to make easy to do.\u00a0 There were outbursts of “NO!\u00a0 Not THAT, you stupid hunk of code!”\u00a0\u00a0 But this software is solid and doesn’t lose things and was a) cheaper than and b) easier to learn than Photo-Shop (which at the time I couldn’t afford at all.)<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the ARC contest.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not going to judge anyone else’s writing\u00a0 so it’ll be another random number generator thing when I know how many people have entered.\u00a0 You get your numbers in order of posting.<\/p>\n I did like the poetry idea, but also think forcing a form may be too restrictive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, I’m not really a fan of unformed verse, so let’s see some attention to meter and (preferably, for me) rhyme.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sonnets written on the virtues of kings or the courage of captains,\u00a0 haiku on the seasons,\u00a0 limericks you might hear in the tavern some evening, drinking songs the same, accompanied by lute\u00a0 or pipes…whatever comes to you.\u00a0 If you’re stuck, do something with the part-line that just came to me:\u00a0 “Before that night…”<\/p>\n And now I’m heading back into Book Five again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …is I should be getting an ARC later this week, so the contest is just about ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,89,5],"tags":[116,54,107],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-contest","category-the-writing-life","tag-contest","tag-map","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}