{"id":1106,"date":"2011-09-09T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:30","slug":"revising-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/revising-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Revising, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about revising before, so I\u2019m not certain this adds much.\u00a0 I just want to say I love this stage.\u00a0 I\u2019m in draft 6 of <em>Promised<\/em> (Book 3 of the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy), and now that I\u2019m more and more convinced I have all the scenes I need and that they\u2019re in the right places, I can finally work at the level where I\u2019m questioning each word.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little like working on a very long poem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1107\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107\" title=\"Draft6revising\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Draft6revising.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Draft6revising.png 325w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Draft6revising-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promised, Draft 6<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So much of character emerges here in tiny gestures and dialogue.\u00a0 Slowing down and sinking into each scene lets me see the firelight, smell the wood smoke and hear the voices in a rich, incredibly satisfying way.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve turned on the track changes feature so I\u2019ll be able to dovetail this draft with the one I most recently sent to my editor.\u00a0 You can see by the frequent changes (in red) that the prose is still very fluid.<\/p>\n<p>If it seems odd to hear about the process of Book 3 when, as a reader, you may have recently finished <em>Birthmarked<\/em> and be expecting <em>Prized<\/em> in a couple months, I\u2019ll admit it has been odd for me, too, to get used to having books in such different stages of the process.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful that today I\u2019m in a stage I enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about revising before, so I\u2019m not certain this adds much.\u00a0 I just want to say I love this stage.\u00a0 I\u2019m in draft 6 of Promised (Book 3 of the Birthmarked trilogy), and now that I\u2019m more and more convinced I have all the scenes I need and that they\u2019re in the right places, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,37],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-promised","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}