{"id":832,"date":"2010-07-21T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:55:11","slug":"ta-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Ta-DA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Things to notice…those guys in the lower right, with bows?\u00a0\u00a0 Royal Archers.\u00a0 Have been ceremonial for some time now, but I like that you can’t tell what they’re shooting at.<\/p>\n

The shiny tip of a serious looking piece of steel sticking up?\u00a0\u00a0 Multiple significances.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, yes, it is the <\/em>sword, but swords in general have…other uses than sticking into people.\u00a0 They can Symbolize.<\/p>\n

Mysterious face in the background?\u00a0\u00a0 Um…not sure myself.\u00a0 It might be any of several people (and I like that thought.)\u00a0\u00a0 Not Ganlin, though.\u00a0 She isn’t sleek-looking.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Book III continues to develop itself.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Page proofs are in and I’m working on them, and the book, simultaneously.\u00a0\u00a0 It means switching the brain from track to track, and the brain is not convinced that when it’s speeding along the rails generating Story, it should be shunted off to a siding and made to crawl along while I look for nitpicky problems.\u00a0 I have tried the “shifting gears and flexibility will protect you from Alzheimer’s” argument, but it’s not really on board with the program.<\/p>\n

One thing about reading page proofs is that you’re reminded what really was in the previous book to the book you’re working on…things like “Oh–I already set that up–I don’t need to set it up again” and “Good heavens, is THAT what I named him\/her\/it?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,81,5],"tags":[40,20,107,50],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-kings-of-the-north","category-the-writing-life","tag-artwork","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life","tag-writer-as-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}