{"id":90,"date":"2009-04-08T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-04-08T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:50:23","slug":"writing-and-re-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Re-Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">I disappeared for months again. In spite of all my best intentions, I keep doing that. This winter, I had a good excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">I was re-writing my book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">When I say re-writing, I don\u2019t mean going over it once more and checking for errors. I meant that I started again at page one, and re-wrote the whole thing. Almost 500 pages. 483 pages, to be exact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If I sound like I\u2019m bragging, it\u2019s because I am. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Not everyone can re-write an entire novel in less than two months, and make it better. I feel good about what I did, not only the intentions I had when I began, but the place I find myself now. Namely, waiting to hear back from my editor. No matter how joy-filled I am in my own accomplishment, in the end, I have to put myself back in the chair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Good thing I like to live there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I disappeared for months again. In spite of all my best intentions, I keep doing that. This winter, I had a good excuse. \u00a0 I was re-writing my book. \u00a0 When I say re-writing, I don\u2019t mean going over it once more and checking for errors. I meant that I started again at page one, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=90\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing and Re-Writing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}