{"id":43450,"date":"2025-11-13T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43450"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:35:31","slug":"inside-the-revision-a-reflection-on-writing-and-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/11\/13\/inside-the-revision-a-reflection-on-writing-and-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Revision: A Reflection on Writing and Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very short reflection, I may add &#8212; but currently, it being early summer here in the Southern Hemisphere, and although going all-out on the WALL #4 revision, I must also endeavour to keep the garden in some kind of order.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20854\" style=\"width: 119px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\"wp-image-20854 size-medium\" 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 id=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WALL #4 revision ongoing!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lest, dear readers, I end up living inside what resembles the place in <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>. You know &#8212; after 100 years of rampant growth and <em>no gardening<\/em>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4378\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4378\" class=\"wp-image-4378 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornspell potential \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And it has been borne upon me, as I strive to focus on the revision without quite losing touch with the &#8220;no-hedge-of-thorns&#8221; mission, that writing\/revision and gardening do have something in common &#8212; which is that every task one embarks upon always ends Taking Far Longer Than You Think!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3186\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3186\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3186\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC04086-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC04086-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC04086-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden burgeoning; taken by J Church<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very short reflection, I may add &#8212; but currently, it being early summer here in the Southern Hemisphere, and although going all-out on the WALL #4 revision, I must also endeavour to keep the garden in some kind of order. Lest, dear readers, I end up living inside what resembles the place in Sleeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-writing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450","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=43450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43615,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions\/43615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}