{"id":4267,"date":"2015-10-12T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2015-10-12T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:47:48","slug":"rule-of-mirrors-1st-pass-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-rule-of-mirrors\/rule-of-mirrors-1st-pass-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule of Mirrors, 1st Pass Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4268\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4268\" class=\"wp-image-4268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5112.jpg\" alt=\"1st pass pages of The Rule of Mirrors\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5112.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5112-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5112-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5112-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1st pass pages of The Rule of Mirrors<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My first pass pages for <em>The Rule of Mirrors<\/em> arrived last week so I&#8217;m seeing what the novel looks like on paper in its real format for the first time. \u00a0It looks nice, and reading this paper copy\u00a0gives me a chance to feel like an outsider, a reader, rather than the writer. \u00a0At the same time, this is my last real opportunity to catch any\u00a0details I want to change, so I don&#8217;t want to lose my critical eye.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, I keep losing my critical eye. \u00a0I keep getting pulled into the story so much that I&#8217;m\u00a0oblivious to\u00a0the words that are taking me there, and this realization brings me enormous satisfaction. It means the book works, at least for me. I can read it and get lost in it, even when I know what&#8217;s about to happen. \u00a0I think that&#8217;s a good sign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first pass pages for The Rule of Mirrors arrived last week so I&#8217;m seeing what the novel looks like on paper in its real format for the first time. \u00a0It looks nice, and reading this paper copy\u00a0gives me a chance to feel like an outsider, a reader, rather than the writer. \u00a0At the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-rule-of-mirrors","tag-rule-of-mirrors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}