{"id":1663,"date":"2012-03-05T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:12:45","slug":"doubling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/doubling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubling Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1664\" style=\"width: 69px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1664\" title=\"Dock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"342\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Novels on the Dock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I usually work on one book at a time, but now something else is happening and I feel like I\u2019m cheating on myself.\u00a0 It\u2019s the strangest thing.\u00a0 I recently started a novel I\u2019ll call <em>Rainy Roof<\/em>, and it completely engrossed me.\u00a0 I loved the character and the weirdness of it, and it was challenging to write.\u00a0 My agent asked me for pages, so I sent him the opening chapters.\u00a0 Then, the anticipation that I\u2019d get feedback soon made me pause, and into that pause leaped an idea for another novel.<\/p>\n<p>An irresistible idea.\u00a0 What the heck?\u00a0 I started that, too.\u00a0 This book, which I\u2019ll call <em>Big Steps<\/em>, is completely unlike anything I\u2019ve ever written.\u00a0 I\u2019m way out of my usual territory, and it\u2019s really fun.\u00a0 I adore this character and her school world feels incredibly real, so I\u2019ve sunk a week into it, blissfully.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m torn.\u00a0 I ought to be working on <em>Rainy Roof<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s further along and it makes better sense as a follow-up to the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy.\u00a0 A responsible writer, the type I used to be, would knuckle down and get that first draft done, but because the girl in <em>Big Steps<\/em> needs me so much, I want to ignore the responsible side of myself and help her.\u00a0 In fact, isn\u2019t it most responsible to keep <em>Rainy Roof<\/em> on hold until I get my agent\u2019s feedback?<\/p>\n<p>Now here\u2019s the real kicker.\u00a0 I keep my novels shrunk in my dock, and without looking too closely, I accidentally clicked open the file of <em>Rainy Roof<\/em> this morning and it took all of two sentences for me to be completely sucked into that book again.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, the book I <em>ought<\/em> to be writing, <em>Rainy Roof<\/em>, is once again the book I <em>want<\/em> to be writing.\u00a0 The book I really <em>shouldn\u2019t<\/em> be writing, <em>Big Steps<\/em>, is <em>also<\/em> the book I want to be writing.<\/p>\n<p>I have two books I want to write.\u00a0 I\u2019m writing them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how yet, but I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually work on one book at a time, but now something else is happening and I feel like I\u2019m cheating on myself.\u00a0 It\u2019s the strangest thing.\u00a0 I recently started a novel I\u2019ll call Rainy Roof, and it completely engrossed me.\u00a0 I loved the character and the weirdness of it, and it was challenging to [&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":[37],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}