{"id":29545,"date":"2015-07-06T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29545"},"modified":"2015-07-05T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T11:23:21","slug":"still-copyediting-a-monday-morning-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/still-copyediting-a-monday-morning-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Copyediting … & A Monday Morning Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The copyedit rocks on.<\/p><\/div>\n

In lieu of more weighty Monday morning reflections, here’s one copyedit-derived reason for thinking that those who maintain that one should ‘write what you know’ may just — er — know<\/em> a thing or two…<\/p>\n

After all, if one only wrote what one knew thoroughly, think how much less research would have to be undertaken when embarking on a writing project. It would certainly reduce — or if one really got the “write what you know” thing down, possibly eliminate altogether — the need to painstakingly check facts in areas so diverse as medicine, military manoeuvres, and animal behaviour, to name a few that are currently on my copyedit plate …<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding, as one innocent inquirer said not long ago, “But I thought you wrote fantasy-fiction. Can’t you just make everything up however you want, or say it’s magic, or something.” <\/em><\/p>\n

If only, indeed … \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In lieu of more weighty Monday morning reflections, here’s one copyedit-derived reason for thinking that those who maintain that one should ‘write what you know’ may just — er — know a thing or two… After all, if one only wrote what one knew thoroughly, think how much less research would have to be undertaken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29550,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}