{"id":642,"date":"2010-03-03T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:53:58","slug":"revision-letter-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Revision Letter Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would be SO happy that Editor sends me these, if you knew what gets fixed before you ever see the book.\u00a0\u00a0 I know some of\u00a0 you think you&#8217;d like the raw, untouched text better, but&#8230;no.\u00a0 Seriously,\u00a0 editors&#8230;and Editor in particular&#8230;make books better.\u00a0 So did the alpha readers and my agent, all of whom had comments that made me rethink some things.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This set of revisions should go smoothly, though there are often unnoticed snakes in the grass somewhere in the process, ready to bite my ankles.\u00a0\u00a0 I have some Official Paperwork that has to be done first, before I can tackle them, but by tomorrow should be digging in.\u00a0\u00a0 The Great Northern War and Scandanavian history will just have to wait.\u00a0 (You want <em>Kings of the Nort<\/em>h to come out on time, right?\u00a0 And Book III to appear in a timely fashion after that?\u00a0\u00a0 Then Curiosity must yield to the schedule.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would be SO happy that Editor sends me these, if you knew what gets fixed before you ever see the book.\u00a0\u00a0 I know some of\u00a0 you think you&#8217;d like the raw, untouched text better, but&#8230;no.\u00a0 Seriously,\u00a0 editors&#8230;and Editor in particular&#8230;make books better.\u00a0 So did the alpha readers and my agent, all of whom had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,45,5],"tags":[62,20,51,107],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}