{"id":514,"date":"2009-12-17T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2009-12-17T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T17:44:04","slug":"plotbombs-during-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Plotbombs During Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about mixed blessings…I get this monster down to a reasonable length, and then someone says “Yes, but…” and I start working on that, and boom!<\/em> comes a plotbomb that explodes all over the scenery, showering it with many-many words.\u00a0 Plot-bomb: good thing.\u00a0 Many-many words: means some other words (wonderful 24k gold words studded with rubies and emeralds, of course.\u00a0 Do I ever write any other kind?\u00a0 Don’t answer that!)\u00a0 have to come out. \u00a0\u00a0 I dare not look at that side of it now.\u00a0 \u00a0 Must keep looking only at the target chapters and see if this is what they need.<\/p>\n

I knew there was a walloping good argument between C1 and C2…after all, there’s foreshadowing up front and in fact C2 has made serious blunders.\u00a0 But I didn’t know there was a row before the row.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, indeedy-do there’s a row.\u00a0\u00a0 However (mild worry about plot-bomb) right now it’s between C1 and C2a (a being a minion of C2, who’s in the scene, as compared with C2, who is somewhere else and that’s the problem.<\/p>\n

What I need at this point is a dissident faction.\u00a0\u00a0 Just thought of that.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Is C2’s party capable of developing a dissident faction?\u00a0\u00a0 I would say “Of course–any group can develop a dissident faction,” but I’m not sure in this case.\u00a0 Different universe, different people with all sorts of backgrounds unlike ours…<\/p>\n

If you see more glows and sparkles, and hear booms<\/em>, think plotbombs landing on my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about mixed blessings…I get this monster down to a reasonable length, and then someone says “Yes, but…” and I start working on that, and boom! comes a plotbomb that explodes all over the scenery, showering it with many-many words.\u00a0<\/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":[44,20,51,107],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-plot-bombs","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}