Apologies, to start with…I could not bear to see the cover image slide down out of sight…hence the lack of posts for a week.<\/p>\n
But I haven’t been idle in that time.\u00a0\u00a0 No, the copy edits aren’t here yet, but some structural problems in book two…aren’t here still<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 They’re fixed.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s what happened.<\/p>\n Last year I overran the end of book one, and–trying desperately to cram in more than would fit–ended up with 50,000 words that I cut off last year around Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Those fifty thousand words were all over-compressed–there was more necessary story in between them (so to speak)\u00a0 although they covered almost the time-span of book two.<\/p>\n So when I started writing book two,\u00a0 in January,\u00a0 it expanded more sideways than lengthways.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since the original fifty thousand words had been part of book one, they ran straight on from the end of book one.\u00a0\u00a0 Initially,\u00a0 I did all the expansion farther on, where the compression and stretching was most evident and the most stuff had been left out.<\/p>\n Some of you probably see the looming difficulty with that.\u00a0\u00a0 Book one had a natural end-point (right where it is now) but book two, having had its skeleton written as part of book one, had no real beginning.\u00a0 And, as alpha-reader K- pointed out, with a year between the books’ release, book two’s first chapter in each viewpoint offered readers no help.<\/p>\n I’d realized that about chapter one myself, and wrote a new initial section for Kieri’s POV.\u00a0 But Dorrin’s and Arcolin’s were both too abrupt (not in a good way abrupt…just walking into the invisible wall abrupt.)\u00a0\u00a0 Dorrin’s is now fixed, I think.\u00a0\u00a0 It starts even closer to the last bit of the first book, but with much more emotional connection.\u00a0\u00a0 Arcolin’s is under review…I haven’t got the right approach yet.<\/p>\n Aside from that, it’s been a week of many other things going on, some of which I’ve written about on the other sites, and some of which aren’t publication-worthy.<\/p>\n And it’s been hot, hotter, hotter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apologies, to start with…I could not bear to see the cover image slide down out of sight…hence the lack of posts for a week. But I haven’t been idle in that time.\u00a0\u00a0 No, the copy edits aren’t here yet, but some structural problems in book two…aren’t here still.\u00a0\u00a0 They’re fixed.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5],"tags":[11,20,51,107],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-mistakes","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}