{"id":760,"date":"2010-04-21T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:31:15","slug":"sometimes-writers-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Writers Are Stupid…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…But it’s fixed now and none of you will ever know why I had to dive back into Kings<\/em> of the North<\/em>, fix something, email my editor about it, have her point out what was wrong with the fix, fix it again….<\/p>\n

This sort of error didn’t happen with the original Paks books because I wrote them all at once, no stopping until done, and thus could be sure that sequencing was straightforward throughout.\u00a0 (And also–one main POV character.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What happened was that something happened in the story that I thought (writing Kings) was offstage, but realized today (in III) had to be onstage, because a POV character was onsite and would have noticed and the event is onstage in III.\u00a0\u00a0 POV could not have NOT noticed.\u00a0\u00a0 That little event didn’t affect that POV’s actions through the rest of the book,\u00a0 but not mentioning it would have had at least a third of you asking “Why didn’t POV notice it…did this other thing (that didn’t happen) happen?”<\/p>\n

Along with thread-pulling earlier, this is making III’s fabric lie flatter to be cut and shaped into the book you want.\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FWIW, III is behaving like a middle book, needing considerable combing and straightening to make its loose fringe threads line up with Kings<\/em>‘ loose fringe threads.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would really like me to go on and writer IV, which is impossible (she says, eying the deadline for III.)<\/p>\n

It’s a really, really good thing I found this today and not after I’d dealt with copy edits and the thing was typeset.\u00a0 Changes now are a nuisance but not a disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…But it’s fixed now and none of you will ever know why I had to dive back into Kings of the North, fix something, email my editor about it, have her point out what was wrong with the fix, fix it again….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,61,5],"tags":[106,62,11,107],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-craft","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-mistakes","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}