So…the readers agreed that the changes made the chapters better.<\/p>\n
Now they want more better.\u00a0\u00a0 That hollow pcck-pock-pock<\/em> you hear is me beating my head on the desk (actually impossible as the keyboard is in the way and it’s an old, sturdy keyboard I don’t want to risk…)<\/p>\n So.\u00a0 It will please some of you that what they want is more revelations (or at least more hints of revelations.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Foreboding music of skullduggery afoot (though of course skullduggery might be ahorse or afloat or awing, I suppose.)<\/p>\n Hints of gruesome doings in the past and motives for concealing same and the danger of even more gruesome doings in the future.<\/p>\n It is not, I mutter at them, a horror story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No gruesomes.\u00a0 ” Maybe some underhandedness.\u00a0 Maybe some skullduggery of the non-gruesome sort.\u00a0 Perhaps a touch of betrayal, a whiff of…oh…treason?<\/p>\n But mostly, back to the grindstone with my sore nose and my headache and my desire not to have to face those chapters again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet (another dramatic gesture, back of hand to forehead) yes, I will once again face those chapters…for your sake.<\/p>\n (Oh, quit that sniggering, you in the back.\u00a0 I know I’m being ridiculous.\u00a0 It’s on purpose!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So…the readers agreed that the changes made the chapters better. Now they want more better.\u00a0\u00a0 That hollow pcck-pock-pock you hear is me beating my head on the desk (actually impossible as the keyboard is in the way and it’s an old, sturdy keyboard I don’t want to risk…)<\/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":[20,51,107],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}