{"id":39248,"date":"2021-06-07T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39248"},"modified":"2021-06-06T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T07:02:58","slug":"reveals-and-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/reveals-and-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Reveals and Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39180\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39180\" class=\"wp-image-39180 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazons-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazons-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazons-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazons.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading older books<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I haven\u2019t forgotten that I promised to report back to you on some of those new-to-me, but otherwise <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/reading-older-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">older books<\/a> that I\u2019ve read recently, or to repost material from <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/05\/31\/the-11th-anniversary-of-the-blog-looking-ahead-to-the-backlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the backlist<\/a> \u2013 and those posts are in the pipeline. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20854\" style=\"width: 64px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\"wp-image-20854 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"54\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 54px) 100vw, 54px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reaching the chaos gate&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For today, however, although I\u2019m mindful that it\u2019s only two weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/tweet-o-the-week-for-wall-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since I let you know that Malian had reached the chaos gate<\/a> (which provides the working title for WALL #4), I thought you might like to know that this past week I\u2019ve been working on what is probably \u201cthe\u201d big series reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Or as fans of the Piggitty-Wiggitty series of children\u2019s books might put it, the \u201cbiggitty-biggest\u201d of series reveals. Although to be fair, this is the part of the book and series that is all about reveals and completion, so the \u201cbiggitty-biggest\u201d title may yet go to another sequence.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39251\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Piggitty-Wiggitty-Jiggitty-Jig-121x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Piggitty-Wiggitty-Jiggitty-Jig-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Piggitty-Wiggitty-Jiggitty-Jig.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though, it\u2019s always good to share that the story is rocking on \u2013 although it\u2019s also a long weekend here, so I\u2019ve downed tools for the greater majority of that time. Interestingly, though, downing the pen and keyboard has also provided the opportunity for reflection in terms of refining some of the narrative action and character interaction. All of which seizes the pause to bubble to the surface.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38765\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38765\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38765\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Harakeke-shingle-bank-sea_Summer-2020-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Harakeke-shingle-bank-sea_Summer-2020-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Harakeke-shingle-bank-sea_Summer-2020-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Harakeke-shingle-bank-sea_Summer-2020-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Harakeke-shingle-bank-sea_Summer-2020.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not quite so much sunshine this long weekend&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just to make the case for downtime, holidays, and long weekends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t forgotten that I promised to report back to you on some of those new-to-me, but otherwise older books that I\u2019ve read recently, or to repost material from the backlist \u2013 and those posts are in the pipeline. \ud83d\ude42 For today, however, although I\u2019m mindful that it\u2019s only two weeks since I let you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing","category-about-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39248","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=39248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39252,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39248\/revisions\/39252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}