{"id":41738,"date":"2023-12-18T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41738"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:07:05","slug":"steady-as-she-goes-a-revision-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/12\/18\/steady-as-she-goes-a-revision-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady-As-She-Goes: A Revision Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Avante! It’s update time!<\/p><\/div>\n

First of all, apologies because I know my “I’ll be back in three months”<\/em> has turned into four. <\/em>Largely because I’ve been striving to push through a gnarly piece of revision before updating, although end-of-year and a sprained thumb tendon have played their part: O-o!<\/p>\n

Still, more than time, especially with the holiday season looming. That’s another “Uh-oh,” but I know I’m not alone in that at this time of year.<\/p>\n

As the title promises, this is a steady-as-she-goes update—which those who have seen the recent posts titled Kicking For Touch — With Added Writing Quote Goodness<\/a> and\u00a0 last Thursday’s Characters Behaving Badly Reprised<\/a> will doubtless have gleaned. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Looking back to the last update<\/a>, I mentioned having identified seven (7) main revision tasks and having completed #1 and #2. I was moving onto the Great Read-Through, aka “…reading the whole shebang through, warts and all, from go to whoa.” <\/em><\/p>\n

The GR-T was quite a ride, but mostly in a good way (hurrah!), and absolutely spot-on, timing-wise, in terms of getting a refresh on the big picture before I started Changing Anything.<\/p>\n

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Now much thumbed, annotated & written over.<\/p><\/div>\n

As also mentioned last time, once done I then leapt into Changing Everything— No, no, just joking (honest!), revision tasks #3 and #4 were what I promised, which effectively comprise the first half of the book.<\/p>\n

Task #3 is now a wrap and I’m currently well into #4, albeit with the Reviser’s* Advisory that it comprises what is, by all the signs and auguries, the largest and gnarliest of the 7 tasks. (Although I have a weather eye on #6 where I suspect Thanir of still<\/em> behaving badly despite earlier optimism<\/a> on that point.)<\/p>\n

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“Still not king”…<\/p><\/div>\n

So there it is: a steady-as-she-goes update but still very much going in the right direction: forward, forward, always forward!<\/p>\n

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… Excelsior!<\/p><\/div>\n

Although that holiday season is looming like a juggernaut… #JustSayin’<\/p>\n

*Reviser or revisor, I pondered--but Merriam Webster put -er first, with -or as a variant, \r\nso reviser<\/em> it is.<\/pre>\n
~*~<\/p>\n
\"\"Speaking of holiday seasons (i.e. time to read stuff, maybe?!) & ICYMI Group Haarth has finished Part 1 of The Wall Of Night<\/a> readalong and the convenor’s report is here.<\/a><\/p>\n
I’ll also have a wee related post to both holiday seasons and m’books on Thursday, so please do check back for that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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