{"id":2533,"date":"2015-11-02T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2015-11-02T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:34:17","slug":"just-to-complicate-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Just to Complicate Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roofing<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, those are roofers tearing off shingles at the house my mother owned when she died.\u00a0 Our son lived there awhile and stays there on weekends, as do guests.\u00a0 It’s where we have parties, too, as it has\u00a0 more room than our house.\u00a0\u00a0 It will soon have a metal roof, which should last longer, given that we have hail storms and branches that fall on the roof and squirrels who think getting through roofs is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile NewBook is being stretched, squeezed, prodded, having bits ripped out and bits inserted, and being–as books often are in their last 29 days of revision–a PAIN about it all.\u00a0\u00a0 “I have enough words in me to be a book–why are you torturing me this way?\u00a0 Let me ALONE!”<\/p>\n

To which the writer’s answer is that of the most control-freak personal trainer you can imagine: “You have the wrong number of words there<\/em>, and you should have more words here<\/em>, and besides those<\/em> words aren’t the right<\/em> words, and these<\/em> words are better<\/em> words.\u00a0 And you, Plot Daemon, did you really think you’d get away with some of this?\u00a0\u00a0 That<\/em> part is entirely too flabby and at the same time too stiff;\u00a0 either it goes or you beef it up with some complicated gymnastics.\u00a0 More weight in this section wouldn’t hurt–in fact, it’s necessary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Give me eight more pages, right now, faster, faster.\u00a0 Whaddaya mean you’re tired?\u00a0 Quit complaining and get back to work!!”<\/p>\n

It’s due in Editor’s in-basket on December 1.\u00a0\u00a0 In between now and then is also Thanksgiving for a crowd.\u00a0\u00a0 And the roof being done.\u00a0 And new carpet laid in that living room and hall over there because the old carpet was kind of shredded in places.\u00a0 I have to move the remaining furniture in the living room before the carpet’s laid.\u00a0 Oh, and choir practice & church and…no, of course<\/em> I’m not overloaded.\u00a0 After all, I’m not up on that roof doing the work.\u00a0 I’m down on the ground listening to the distant (thank heavens) banging over there.\u00a0 And writing.<\/p>\n

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Yes, those are roofers tearing off shingles at the house my mother owned when she died.\u00a0 Our son lived there awhile and stays there on weekends, as do guests.\u00a0 It’s where we have parties, too, as it has\u00a0 more room than our house.\u00a0\u00a0 It will soon have a metal roof, which should last longer, given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,45],"tags":[112,20,51],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-revisions","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-revision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533"}],"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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}