{"id":6120,"date":"2011-06-12T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2011-06-11T21:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T09:28:56","slug":"what-im-doing-the-great-revision-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/what-im-doing-the-great-revision-rolls-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Doing: The Great Revision Rolls On"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a little lull on updating you on ‘the great revision’ (aka the GR) of The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong> recently, mainly because I’ve been busy going to the ConText<\/strong> Natcon (you can read about it here<\/a> and here<\/a>), attending the Sir Julius Vogel Award ceremony<\/strong> (here<\/a>), celebrating the first birthday of this blog (here<\/a>) and a year as part of the Tueday Poem<\/strong> community<\/strong> (here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In addition there’s some more Heir<\/em><\/strong><\/a> news lurking in the background, but it’s officially under wraps so “shu-u-ush”<\/em> for now—but as soon as possible I will be letting you all know here first!<\/p>\n

So, plenty going on, but amidst all the shouting and the tumult the GR has also been quietly proceeding. I have set myself a firm deadline for completion, “no matter what” (with a palm firmly touching the wood—ok, high quality melamine ;-)—of my desk given, you know, earthquakes and all that jazz) and so am pretty much all systems go for doing whatever needs to be done to achieve that. And am <\/em>doing it every day, in fact, no matter what else may be going down and \/or going up right here on the ” … Anything, Really”<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n

Today I passed the 3\/4 mark for the original manuscript (so far the revised ms is the shorter of the two), reviewing 17 revised pages from yesterday and revising a further 19 once that was done. As part of the daily process I also did the morning pages that I talked about here<\/a> and here<\/a>, which today were mainly about working out plotline angles from yesterday’s review. I also fitted in a short walk, only about half an hour, but enough to clear a\u00a0 few cobwebs and shake out a few more plot and character wrinkles by the time I got back.<\/p>\n

I haven’t talked about exercise, especially walking, as part of my process yet, but I will do so because I find it’s very important for keeping the flow going and the lines of creativity clear.\u00a0 And now I am rarin’ to go for tomorrow, probably just heading straight into the next chapter since they are very closely aligned, rather than reading over today’s work first. So the re-read will probably happen Monday and cover everything I’ve gotten done, revision-wise, over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Busy, busy—but it’s all good too, because to paraphrase the immortal words of Sir Ed Hillary: “I’m knocking the b*st#rd off!” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a little lull on updating you on ‘the great revision’ (aka the GR) of The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two recently, mainly because I’ve been busy going to the ConText Natcon (you can read about it here and here), attending the Sir Julius Vogel Award ceremony (here), celebrating […]<\/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-6120","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\/6120","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=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}