{"id":4956,"date":"2017-02-22T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:00:37","slug":"the-next-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/the-next-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4957\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4957\" class=\"wp-image-4957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM.png 2659w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM-450x282.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-8.45.17-AM-250x157.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marginalia from my editor, in blue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m in a close editing stage now where I have marginal notes from my editor who has given me feedback at the sentence level for\u00a0<em>The Keep of Ages<\/em>. It\u2019s a shifting puzzle. If, for instance, my editor suggests that I move a greeting from the bottom of an airplane ramp to the top of the ramp, I may discover in the process that I have a character on stage too early, and I need to rework the passage to make it less awkward by having him show up a few sentences later. Or she might point out that late in the novel, a certain discovery brings up new issues when it might be better to go deeper into a resolution, a healing. She\u2019s nicer than I am, and she\u2019s right, so I take a few pages to experiment with a new scene.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s precise and satisfying work, and I&#8217;m pleased to know I&#8217;m closing in on the final version of this book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in a close editing stage now where I have marginal notes from my editor who has given me feedback at the sentence level for\u00a0The Keep of Ages. It\u2019s a shifting puzzle. If, for instance, my editor suggests that I move a greeting from the bottom of an airplane ramp to the top of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","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=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}