{"id":3335,"date":"2014-04-22T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:30:54","slug":"wrapping-up-the-vault-of-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/wrapping-up-the-vault-of-dreamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping up The Vault of Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3336\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3336 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1stPassVault.jpg\" alt=\"1stPassVault\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Pass Pages of The Vault of Dreamers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I reached another milestone today when I finished going over the first pass pages for <i>The Vault of Dreamers<\/i>.\u00a0 First pass pages are printed on paper and show how the manuscript is laid out on the page, with full margins and the real font that will be used in the finished book.\u00a0 The pile of pages looks dauntingly fat, but that\u2019s because it\u2019s printed on only one side of the paper.\u00a0 The final book of 400+ double-sided pages will be smaller.<\/p>\n<p>After all the drafts of <i>The Vault of Dreamers<\/i> that I\u2019ve seen on the computer, you\u2019d think I would be familiar with the book by now, but the story reads differently to me when I\u2019m seeing it on paper.\u00a0 The pace is faster.\u00a0 By the end, I was racing through, and I had to deliberately stop myself to go back and read carefully.\u00a0 This was really my last chance to catch anything I wanted to change, and I didn\u2019t want to miss something, like when I accidentally changed a minor character\u2019s name.\u00a0 That was a goof.\u00a0 I had a few paragraphs I needed to strike, some repeating lines of dialogue to cut, and some missing words to add.\u00a0 The last line needed tinkering again.\u00a0 Most of the book was clean, though.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s exciting to be at this point.\u00a0 After I finished writing my changes in the margins, I took the first pass pages down to Staples, made a copy, and mailed them back to my editor, Kate Jacobs.\u00a0 She and a proofreader are going through the first pass pages, too.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have a chance to discuss any lingering snags next week, but we are within inches of finishing off this book once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached another milestone today when I finished going over the first pass pages for The Vault of Dreamers.\u00a0 First pass pages are printed on paper and show how the manuscript is laid out on the page, with full margins and the real font that will be used in the finished book.\u00a0 The pile of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","tag-the-vault-of-dreamers-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","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=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}