{"id":42081,"date":"2024-04-15T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42081"},"modified":"2024-04-14T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:14:38","slug":"the-upside-of-the-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/04\/15\/the-upside-of-the-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upside Of The Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case you missed it, I did a The Wall Of Night<\/a> #4 update<\/a> last week, where I mentioned completing Revision task #4 (of 7), which comprised revising a significant chunk of the manuscript, aka “the zigzag.”<\/p>\n

\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\"<\/p>\n

Sometimes, on completing a milestone in any project, I find there can be a slight dip in energy and mood afterward, as one reflects on “what next.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Revising “the zigzag” was a significant piece of work so I was feeling that “dip” after writing the update — but then I recalled that the next section (which also has a nickname, but “redacted” as Murderbot would say in System Collapse <\/em>:D) not only marked a major turning point in the completion of this story but was a blast to write.<\/p>\n

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A handwritten blast in this case…<\/p><\/div>\n

So instead of the “dip” I found myself contemplating the upside of the update, which is not only starting afresh but returning to material that I already know is pivotal to the story.<\/p>\n

Onward! (As Kate, the series editor, likes to say. :D)<\/p>\n

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Open for some serious revising business.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case you missed it, I did a The Wall Of Night #4 update last week, where I mentioned completing Revision task #4 (of 7), which comprised revising a significant chunk of the manuscript, aka “the zigzag.” Sometimes, on completing a milestone in any project, I find there can be a slight dip in […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081","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=42081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42085,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081\/revisions\/42085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}