{"id":468,"date":"2009-11-08T23:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T05:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-11-08T23:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T05:12:36","slug":"taking-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Taking Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I just found yet <em>another<\/em> unfixed rough spot\u00a0 in the new book,\u00a0 Book Two is almost certain to take off for NYC and its Editor tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What rough spot, you ask (thinking, surely this writer has filed off all the rough spots and polished them smooth by now&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a conversation between Kieri and an elf, I had written variations on an argument&#8211;and hadn&#8217;t settled on one of them.\u00a0 Yes, two were still in there together, not really meshing.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s been taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>In another, a certain gnome&#8217;s next move is left sort of hanging.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it <em>was<\/em> left hanging.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s not, or not as much.<\/p>\n<p>There are some dangling threads I&#8217;m planning to pick up in the next book, but my editor may prefer to have them tacked down a bit in this one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want people tripping in the long runs of those threads behind the canvas&#8230;but how long is too long?<\/p>\n<p>I want to double-check two more scenes tonight, if I can get it done by midnight&#8211;but at midnight,\u00a0 I&#8217;m hitting the sack (and hoping it doesn&#8217;t hit back.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I just found yet another unfixed rough spot\u00a0 in the new book,\u00a0 Book Two is almost certain to take off for NYC and its Editor tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What rough spot, you ask (thinking, surely this writer has filed off all the rough spots and polished them smooth by now&#8230;)<\/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":[106,20,51,107],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}