Herewith a post that may grow over the days, for your amusement, as I jot down some details of revising a big book at top speed (also lets me take a short break each time.)<\/p>\n
1. How could I have gone over this chapter several times (which I have) and not seen that “he’d had a good” was not a complete clause in that sentence?\u00a0 A good what<\/em>??\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adjectives need nouns.\u00a0\u00a0 (Nouns often don’t need adjectives, if you use the right noun.)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 And speaking of nouns…when writing at top speed I may throw down a clutter of words that covers the meaning more or less–at least reminds me of it–instead of hunting around for the best word.\u00a0\u00a0 Later, I have to stare at the passage and figure out which of the meanings hidden in the clutter suggests which right word.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning’s right word was “levy.”<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Word, as usual, introduces its own annoyances (I get to blame someone else!)\u00a0 and one of them is the inability of the spell-checker to grasp that a proper noun can have a possessive form–and that possessives of names do not become some other unknown word.\u00a0\u00a0 I want it to catch “ther” and “nad” and “br8ght” and not clutter the page by underlining possessives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Herewith a post that may grow over the days, for your amusement, as I jot down some details of revising a big book at top speed (also lets me take a short break each time.) 1. How could I have gone over this chapter several times (which I have) and not seen that “he’d had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,45,5],"tags":[62,51,107],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-editing","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}