{"id":6241,"date":"2011-06-17T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2011-06-16T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:34:59","slug":"its-friday-more-revision-progess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/its-friday-more-revision-progess\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Friday: More Revision Progess"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday and what a week it’s been!\u00a0 I hate the thought that there may be more earthquake drama to come, but since I have absolutely no control over the earth moving at all, let alone the way<\/em> in which it moves, I have decided to focus on things over which I have more influence.<\/p>\n

Like writing my books, for example.<\/p>\n

In fact I’m thinking I’ll give you update reports as I strive to stave off aftershocks and liquefaction, power cuts and the need to either boil or add bleach to everything (ie a teaspoon or two of household bleach makes the laundry ‘go down’ a whole lot better—well, more hygienically, at any rate) to make that 1 July deadline.<\/p>\n

So why does 1 July matter so much? Well, it will make my publishers happy and that makes me reasonably happy, too.:) Mostly though, it means I will get the next book to you in March next year—and it does really matter to me to get the books to you as soon as I humanly can, given The Wall of Night<\/strong> series is an ongoing story. To me that’s a kind of unwritten contract between writer and reader, a sort of noblesse oblige<\/em> I guess: you’ve invested time and energy in reading me and I want to honour that commitment and deliver on the story.<\/p>\n

I also very much care that the story you get should be ‘right’: ie if you’re going to invest time and energy again, then I want to do my level best to ensure that the story is as good if not better than the preceding book.<\/p>\n

And I want to honour the story as well, by not stinting on the quality of the telling.<\/p>\n

So somewhere in all that, I walk the authorial tightrope, because if you bend too far one way or t’other you will surely fall …<\/p>\n

And if I do make 1 July maybe we’ll have another blog party, to coincide with the Grand Giveaway<\/strong> (details here<\/a>.) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Anyway, here it is, Completed Today—the first of the Great Revision Updates:<\/p>\n