{"id":43351,"date":"2025-09-25T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43351"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:38:29","slug":"work-in-progress-update-section-2-of-wall-4-part-2-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/work-in-progress-update-section-2-of-wall-4-part-2-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-In-Progress Update: Section 2 (of WALL #4 Part 2) Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in m&#8217;last update on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/work-in-progress-part-2-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 11<\/a>, I confirmed my <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/update-the-wall-of-night-4-revision-part-1-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 9 commitment<\/a>, that <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cFuture updates will be on each section of Part 2 as I complete them. I\u2019ll report on them here, under <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-my-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">About My Books<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-what-im-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">About What I\u2019m Doing<\/a>, as that occurs.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Part 2 of the overall WALL #4 manuscript, by the way, in case of an doubt. (As I also mentioned on June 9, tis a book of two very distinct halves &#8212; diptych style, in fact. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43098\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43098\" class=\"wp-image-43098 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman-tablet_stylus_Wikipedia-Commons-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman-tablet_stylus_Wikipedia-Commons-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman-tablet_stylus_Wikipedia-Commons-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman-tablet_stylus_Wikipedia-Commons.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Roman-style diptych<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m talking about the second section of Part 2, and am very happy to report that it&#8217;s now done.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s on to Section 3, which must (alas or hurrah, as you will), begin with a little writing new &#8212; but only a little. Otherwise,\u00a0 3 is one of the shorter instalments, but of considerable import to the story. So as mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/how-many-sections-a-reader-question-answered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on August 14<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;length alone may not determine how long revision will take: it\u2019s always far more about what\u2019s happening with the narrative and the characters.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35473\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35473\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35473\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-11.59.47-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-11.59.47-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-11.59.47-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-11.59.47-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-11.59.47-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yarp, that&#8217;s Haarth&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As also mentioned on August 14, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;the (only) way through is to keep turning up and moving the work forward, one word, sentence, paragraph, page, chapter and section at a time.&#8221;<\/em><\/span> But please be assured &#8212; I&#8217;m not taking my foot from the pedal!<\/p>\n<p>See you again (on this subject) on the other side of Section 3 (of 6 &#8212; a topic also canvassed on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/how-many-sections-a-reader-question-answered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 14<\/a>, should you feel in need of a refresh. :D)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43357\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43357\" class=\"wp-image-43357 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toph-Beifong_1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toph-Beifong_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toph-Beifong_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toph-Beifong_1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toph-Beifong_1.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time to channel m&#8217;inner Toph Beifong (Avatar: Last Airbender)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in m&#8217;last update on August 11, I confirmed my June 9 commitment, that \u201cFuture updates will be on each section of Part 2 as I complete them. I\u2019ll report on them here, under About My Books and About What I\u2019m Doing, as that occurs.\u201d That&#8217;s Part 2 of the overall WALL #4 manuscript, by [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43351","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\/43351","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=43351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43359,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43351\/revisions\/43359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}