(GRUMP: just erased the whole post I was about to send.\u00a0 My right little finger hit *something* (I wasn’t looking at it, so don’t know) and it all disappeared.\u00a0 So this is not the post you would’ve had but the post’s general gist as I remember it after that moment of shock, useless attempts at recovery, and then writing a GRUMP.)<\/p>\n
This week has been about reorganizing the POV sections into chronological order and writing connections when the lack of them became apparent.\u00a0 I’ve also been noting places were cuts could be made later, to accommodate the additional material that will bring the book to the conclusion I’m trying to achieve…for which I need a LOT more room.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right now the book’s just under 163,000 words,\u00a0 but it changes daily up and down as this is trimmed slightly and that is added for connectivity and this other bit now turns out to be wrong, and here I’ve added a chunk…etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a lot of front-loading in this book, so anything trimmed there has to be carefully done so the plot-threads can run smoothly on, without fraying to nothing later.<\/p>\n
This is fairly slow work.\u00a0\u00a0 I hoped to do it faster, but of course the week had other complications–life intrudes, and a good thing, too.\u00a0\u00a0 Tomorrow we start rehearsals for the Durufl\u00e9 Requiem<\/em> (performance first week of November) and that will slow me down more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among other things, all the women (yes, including altos) are going to have to sing the written-for-solo-soprano “Pie Jesu” which has a high (for any alto) F#.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (This is not the famous “Pie Jesu” everyone’s heard.) \u00a0 The intermittent voice lessons of the past year have opened up some of my higher range (proving that I’m not a true contralto–I really am a mezzo)\u00a0 but the gap since my coach went on vacation in summer and then Stuff Happened in his family has led to backsliding.\u00a0\u00a0 So I’m starting voice lessons again next week.<\/p>\n The Durufl\u00e9 has another disadvantage–I will need to listen to the good recording I have at least once a day as I work on the music, but I can’t write to it.\u00a0\u00a0 Like some other pieces, it just does not synch with my writer-mind.\u00a0 (Bruckner, for instance, who wrote some gorgeous stuff but it stops my writer-mind dead in its tracks.)<\/p>\n I had hoped to be past this point before now, but…not.\u00a0 So, I’m going to be spending even less time online, but not less time working on the book…music will eat up some of the online time and more time on the book will eat up the rest.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be here at least twice a week (unless something happens) but hope you’ll be patient with me.\u00a0 The book will get done.<\/p>\n Both Arvid and Stammel have POV sections in Book III, by the way, for those of you who are looking forward to seeing those characters again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (GRUMP: just erased the whole post I was about to send.\u00a0 My right little finger hit *something* (I wasn’t looking at it, so don’t know) and it all disappeared.\u00a0 So this is not the post you would’ve had but the post’s general gist as I remember it after that moment of shock, useless attempts at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,45,5],"tags":[62,112,20,107],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-life-beyond-writing","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}