{"id":4260,"date":"2015-10-01T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:28:54","slug":"inventing-the-novel-writing-process-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/inventing-the-novel-writing-process-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing the Novel Writing Process Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_4322\"Each time I write a novel, it feels like I\u2019ve never written one before. It\u2019s a bewildering, nerve-wracking situation. I\u2019m supposed to create a 300+ page manuscript that\u2019s interesting and fun to read when I have difficulty writing one clear sentence. I\u2019ve recently finished writing The Rule of Mirrors<\/em>, so I\u2019m working on Vault 3 now, and the only thing that truly makes sense about it so far is this feeling that I have tentacles reaching into my brain. They\u2019re slick, slimy tentacles with little sucker feet on them, and they coil slowly through my neurons like they belong there.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the best I\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

But you know what? We have to know our weaknesses and strengths. I\u2019m not very good at first drafting, but I\u2019m good at revising. I stress if I need to make a quick decision, but I\u2019m a deep thinker when I can take my time. I\u2019m critical of my work, but I can force myself to do the parts that are unpleasant.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m forcing myself. I\u2019m making myself get down 6 or 7 pages a day, and you know what? That\u2019s good enough. That\u2019s the best I can do. Those pages are going to add up. The truth is, I don\u2019t actually have to know how to write this novel yet. I just need to know how to start<\/em> this novel. That much I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each time I write a novel, it feels like I\u2019ve never written one before. It\u2019s a bewildering, nerve-wracking situation. I\u2019m supposed to create a 300+ page manuscript that\u2019s interesting and fun to read when I have difficulty writing one clear sentence. I\u2019ve recently finished writing The Rule of Mirrors, so I\u2019m working on Vault 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","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=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4262,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}