Early in the morning, at the break of day, the writer pushed a button, and sent the book away.\u00a0\u00a0 Away, away, away my lads, she sent the book away,\u00a0 all on a tide of ‘lectrons, she sent it far away.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still early in the morning, but not the break of day,\u00a0 the Editor did see it, as on her desk it lay.\u00a0\u00a0 It lay, it lay, it lay, my lads,\u00a0 upon her desk it lay, just where the writer sent it, so far, far away.<\/p>\n
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This would do better if set as verse, of course, but I’m not going to wrestle with the software this morning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The last eye-check revealed that I had not changed the title in the header line from its barn-name (“Kieri II”) to its provisional title, although the title block had it instead of the [TITLE] it had been carrying.\u00a0 So there was another last-minute change so file-name (formerly K-III-braid-2), header, and title block all agreed.\u00a0\u00a0 (Again, many thanks to electronics, since this involved an easy change.)\u00a0 Since the title’s only provisional and Editor hasn’t approved, I’m not calling it that for sure yet.<\/p>\n
I’ll be checking email to be sure that Agent and Editor both got their copies (unless I get an out-of-office message from one or both) and then I’m turning the computer OFF for the rest of the day or as long as I can stand it.<\/p>\n
88 days ’til Kings of the North<\/em>.<\/p>\n [Edit]\u00a0\u00a0 That’s wrong!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s only 78 days.\u00a0\u00a0 (Thanks Jenn, for a heads-up on that.\u00a0 My brain was not fully functioning.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early in the morning, at the break of day, the writer pushed a button, and sent the book away.\u00a0\u00a0 Away, away, away my lads, she sent the book away,\u00a0 all on a tide of ‘lectrons, she sent it far away.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still early in the morning, but not the break of day,\u00a0 the Editor did see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}