{"id":43248,"date":"2025-08-14T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43248"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:01:34","slug":"how-many-sections-a-reader-question-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/how-many-sections-a-reader-question-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"“How Many Sections?”: A Reader Question Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"

So-o, way-aways back on Monday, I posted an update on WALL #4 revision progress<\/a>, namely that I had completed the revision of the first section in Part 2 (of the manuscript of two distinct parts. I reported on completing Part 1, here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But as Gail’s question on the update highlighted, it’s also helpful to know how many sections Part 2 contains — so thank you, Gail, for prompting me to say. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I know, it looks like a LOT of sections… (That’s Gathering<\/em>, by the way.)<\/p><\/div>\n

I did have to do a quick review and headcount, though, just to be completely sure of the precise number, but the answer—ta da!—is six.<\/p>\n

That’s six in total, dear readers, including Section 1, which I’ve just reported “done<\/a>.” So that’s one down, five to go.<\/p>\n

And although you may recall that I revised the final section first (because it needed major changes that I wanted to capture while they were fresh in my mind), it must stay on the list. That’s because it will still need consequential changes, whether tweaks or more substantive, to fit with the rest of the revision.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, wrangling the narrative via hand is still required.<\/p><\/div>\n

As I also indicated on Monday, the sections are of varying lengths, similar to the other books — although that can and does change, sometimes quite significantly, through the revision process. Also, length alone may not determine how long revision will take: it’s always far more about what’s happening with the narrative and the characters.<\/p>\n

So as with so much else in life, the way through is to keep turning up and moving the work forward, one word, sentence, paragraph, page, chapter and section at a time. So as per my June 9<\/a> post, my next update will be when Section 2 is done. It’s currently titled The Gap<\/em> by the way, and it comprises a section of the narrative that has been integral to the WALL story since I first started telling it to myself—long before I ever put pen to paper.<\/p>\n

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It’s a marathon, but there’s alchemy still, in the mix<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So-o, way-aways back on Monday, I posted an update on WALL #4 revision progress, namely that I had completed the revision of the first section in Part 2 (of the manuscript of two distinct parts. I reported on completing Part 1, here.) But as Gail’s question on the update highlighted, it’s also helpful to know […]<\/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-43248","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\/43248","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=43248"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43259,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248\/revisions\/43259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}