Yesterday I finished the second rewrite requested by Editor.\u00a0 Summer has been full of long, long days at the computer and short-short nights of too little sleep.\u00a0 (In between the two rewrites was something else that came up and required the same crunch approach.)<\/p>\n
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I have been able to work in some exercise, but sleep is crucial to full recovery (and in 30 minutes I’ll be back in the sack–back on the prescribed early bedtime and plenty of sack time.)\u00a0\u00a0 However…in February I started making bread again, and homemade bread is healthier for me.\u00a0 I’m not managing a home-cooked proper meal every day (though I was for the brief times not in crunch mode)\u00a0 and that’s starting again this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Fresh stuff, stuff I know my body likes.\u00a0 Plus the exercise.<\/p>\n
So…what of Paksworld?\u00a0\u00a0 Who’s alive and moving around?\u00a0 Cracolnya in childhood, again.\u00a0 Arcolin’s adopted son, again.\u00a0 Something really strange from way back in that world’s human history, in a part of Aarenis not yet revealed in print.\u00a0\u00a0 The knitting guild story got bogged down in too much detail (you might be interested, but when the story grinds to a halt because of the amount of factual information about wool, spinning, dyeing, knitting, etc., I need to back off and look again…what is the story *really*?\u00a0\u00a0 Can it be a shorter work or does it need to be embedded in a book so that the amount of detail, spread out, doesn’t slow things down?<\/p>\n
On the way to DragonCon in\u00a0 not very long (it seems long now, but I know the days will zip past; they always do, and I’ll be packing the night before and wondering where the time went.)\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not trying to push on any of the writing now; the rewrites forced me hard into the walls, ceiling, and floor of the Vatta universe and it will take time (and walks on the land and maybe other land) to come back into the rhythm of Paksworld.\u00a0 I have taken some pictures this summer that will help with seasonality in Aarenis.\u00a0 Today I thought I saw a gold-orange butterfly in the tree outside and it turned out to be a single leaf, already fall-golden,\u00a0 caught on a strand of spider silk and slowly turning back and forth in a light breeze.\u00a0 (It did look like a butterfly opening and closing its wings, from in here.)\u00a0 Perfectly natural, yet magically beautiful.<\/p>\n
On the book news side, I got to pick the narrator for Surrender None<\/em> and share the “correct” pronunciation.\u00a0\u00a0 It was hard, since my internal voice, while working on Vatta, is hearing Vatta and Slotter Key and other SFnal (not fantasy) sounds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But that should improve the coming audiobook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I finished the second rewrite requested by Editor.\u00a0 Summer has been full of long, long days at the computer and short-short nights of too little sleep.\u00a0 (In between the two rewrites was something else that came up and required the same crunch approach.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,53],"tags":[112,31],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-book-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695"}],"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=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}