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<\/p>\n“Inside The Revision” being a subset of “Inside the Writing Life.” \ud83d\ude00 (As it were; so to speak…)<\/p>\n
With any manuscript revision, there’s always lots of checking, particularly around set up from the previous books — not to mention what characters said and did, or how magic worked, or settings and other worldbuilding detail.<\/p>\n
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Now that I’m not only working on the last book, but the final half of the last book, with wrap-ups and resolves very much the order of the day, the fact checking has also increased exponentially.<\/p>\n
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By way of an example, today I was leafing back through HEIR to check on translocation and portal use, and<\/em> DAUGHTER, just to refresh on various aspects of the epilogue.<\/p>\n UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n All in a revision day’s work, but it always repays the effort. Sometimes<\/em>, because I realise whatever I’m checking is out of sync.<\/p>\n USA<\/p><\/div>\n But others<\/em> because I have the reward of finding that, yep, something set up in Book One is playing out exactly as envisaged. (Awesome: high five all round with the Muses. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n Check, check, check again, then onward, like Tolkien’s road in The Lord of The Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n The road goes ever on…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Inside The Revision” being a subset of “Inside the Writing Life.” \ud83d\ude00 (As it were; so to speak…) With any manuscript revision, there’s always lots of checking, particularly around set up from the previous books — not to mention what characters said and did, or how magic worked, or settings and other worldbuilding detail. Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing","category-about-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43418","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=43418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43419,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43418\/revisions\/43419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/csse-dmz-test1.canterbury.ac.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3-190x300.jpg\")
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