{"id":1376,"date":"2022-09-28T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2022-09-28T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T05:13:10","slug":"closer-and-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/closer-and-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer and Closer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is still coming and the book is still GROWING.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t ask it to grow past 150K, I swear.\u00a0 But it swore back that I need another chapter of this, and two more chapters of that, and by the way I&#8217;d left an entire Very Important POV dangling.<\/p>\n<p>So.\u00a0 Still growing.\u00a0\u00a0 New Stuff is all, of course, first draft.\u00a0\u00a0 Older stuff is now all in Second Level Revision.\u00a0 Some of it&#8217;s shifted into Third Level Revision.\u00a0\u00a0 And the length just zipped past 160K <em>again<\/em>.\u00a0 This is brief because after midnight (again!) and I need sleep.\u00a0 I may add more tomorrow or just wait until it&#8217;s nailed down (no doubt fighting the lid coming down) and mailed off.\u00a0 But it is a very, VERY live book.\u00a0 Think of trying to get a panther into a box&#8230;it&#8217;s like that.<\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re due snippets and more info but it&#8217;s been very hectic and shows no sign of calming down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is still coming and the book is still GROWING.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t ask it to grow past 150K, I swear.\u00a0 But it swore back that I need another chapter of this, and two more chapters of that, and by the way I&#8217;d left an entire Very Important POV dangling. So.\u00a0 Still growing.\u00a0\u00a0 New Stuff is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/closer-and-closer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,54,32,29,10],"tags":[17,55,58,7],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-paksworld","category-progress","category-revision","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-paksworld-universe","tag-progress","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}