{"id":41606,"date":"2023-10-30T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41606"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:40:31","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-michael-crichton-1942-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/a-writing-quote-from-michael-crichton-1942-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from Michael Crichton, 1942 &#8211; 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;Books aren&#8217;t written &#8212; they&#8217;re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn&#8217;t quite done it.\u201d <\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">~ <em>Michael Crichton, 1942 &#8211; 2008<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">~*~<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I believe this is one of the truest observations of the writing process that I&#8217;ve read. Speaking, you understand, as the person who had to rewrite the beginning of Part VI No-Man&#8217;s-Land in <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a> around five to six times, to get the story to flow. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I have experienced chapters or sequences where one &#8220;take&#8221; is all that&#8217;s required, but they are very few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>All of which seems very apposite right now, as I revise <em>The Chaos Gate<\/em> manuscript, hence choosing this quote to kick off the week. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>See you back here on Thursday. In the meantime, have a good week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Books aren&#8217;t written &#8212; they&#8217;re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn&#8217;t quite done it.\u201d ~ Michael Crichton, 1942 &#8211; 2008 ~*~ I believe this is one of the truest observations of the writing process that I&#8217;ve read. Speaking, you understand, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606","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=41606"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41619,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions\/41619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}