{"id":2816,"date":"2013-05-10T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2013-05-10T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:29:46","slug":"revisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/revisin\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2817\" alt=\"LittleStreet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LittleStreet.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/>Another, complete world exist in my computer now, right there in the file behind this one.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how to describe it or explain it to people, not the book itself nor my process of working on it.\u00a0 When friends ask if the draft needs big changes or if I\u2019m working line by line, I feel the novel world suck me out of the now toward rainy plains and a silent window and the blue glow of night glass.\u00a0 Depths, colors, and currents swirl there.\u00a0 People are leaving my story\u2014gone.\u00a0 Others are coming forward, uncertain.\u00a0 Hints my subconscious once dropped into the novel now reveal themselves in a pattern.\u00a0 Others don\u2019t.\u00a0 Eliminating one scene means motivation for an action 50 pages later no longer makes sense.\u00a0 Fixing the pace in one place means dropping out a plot thread that guts character development.\u00a0 One perceptive observation from my editor in the margin of page 60 ricochets through my choices all around the first half of the novel and unmoors them all.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for me, that\u2019s where I\u2019ll be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another, complete world exist in my computer now, right there in the file behind this one.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how to describe it or explain it to people, not the book itself nor my process of working on it.\u00a0 When friends ask if the draft needs big changes or if I\u2019m working line by line, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}