{"id":647,"date":"2020-12-05T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-12-05T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:20:22","slug":"revision-revision-where-art-thou-o-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/05\/revision-revision-where-art-thou-o-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Revision, Revision, Where Art Thou, O Revision?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Made it through the first 30 days of this book (book-days, not our days) and straightened out the more obvious problems.\u00a0 Then came a floating scene…one I’d labeled “move to where it belongs”…that dragged behind it a big important Event connected–alas–to a particular timing that no longer had space to fit it in.\u00a0 Logical space.\u00a0 Logical time.\u00a0 It was only about 12 hours long, but those 12 hours had to make sense along with the straightened-out\u00a0 timeline of the first 30 days.\u00a0 Part of the straightening-out process was deciding how long it would take to do A, B, C…if, for instance, you hire someone who is on another continent, how long will it be before they show up, given their existing employment status, family situation, living situation, transportation, etc.\u00a0 If you change the paperwork supporting a request for change of guardianship…how will that affect the court date?\u00a0\u00a0 What will feel<\/em> right, in terms of the existing social\/political\/legal milieu that’s been created in previous books.\u00a0\u00a0 Business stuff, legal stuff, travel stuff, cannot be too quick & easy (though we all know enough money greases the wheels, the flight still take 15 hours or 2 hours, there are things in the queue that don’t<\/em> budge, and 100% efficiency is a goal never reached, esp across platforms.)<\/p>\n

So what about the floating scene and its long, vivid tail?\u00a0 Still looking at the logic.\u00a0\u00a0 Is there a place for the tail, but pulling out just parts of it (whodunnit and why) and substituting?\u00a0 Is there something to replace it?\u00a0 (Needed to cut words anyway, but also needed, I thought,\u00a0 a threat at about that point or earlier.)\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Today I will extract it, with great care, into a separate file and if it finds a home later, well and good.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, the tail then generated other plot, which also needs to be extracted as delicately as a tumor nestled inside a body, labeled as consequences of the first extraction.\u00a0 Ah, the glamor of a writing life…<G><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Made it through the first 30 days of this book (book-days, not our days) and straightened out the more obvious problems.\u00a0 Then came a floating scene…one I’d labeled “move to where it belongs”…that dragged behind it a big important Event connected–alas–to a particular timing that no longer had space to fit it in.\u00a0 Logical space.\u00a0 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}