{"id":1138,"date":"2009-10-04T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T06:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2009-10-05T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T07:26:07","slug":"polishing-is-harder-than-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/polishing-is-harder-than-it-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"Polishing is harder than it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is. \u00a0This is the final revision of Genesis Earth<\/em> before I submit this novel everywhere, and it’s tough. \u00a0I’m changing a lot more than I thought I would, and it’s going a lot slower than any other process so far.<\/p>\n

Plus, on my way to Murray for my mission reunion, the service light for my engine flipped on. \u00a0What the heck? \u00a0I just had the car serviced a month ago!<\/p>\n

At least I know about it now, before<\/em> I attempt to drive to San Jose for World Fantasy.<\/p>\n

Long story short, showed up at 9pm to the reunion just in time to say hi to President and Sister Heywood as they were getting ready to leave. \u00a0So worth it, though. \u00a0They’re both getting older, and I don’t know when I’ll be seeing them again. \u00a0Listened to From Cumorah’s Hill<\/em> on the way back, and it was awesome. \u00a0I mean that in a religious way.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a research proposal due tomorrow, and I kid you not, I was working on that thing in my sleep last night. \u00a0All night, while I was dreaming, I was thinking “should I use this author in my paper? \u00a0How should I tie that in? \u00a0What controls do I need to use? \u00a0Will this dataset cover the same years as that dataset?” All. Night. Long.<\/p>\n

And then I forgot<\/em> it all when I woke up!<\/p>\n

I did get some time to write, though. \u00a0Took the netbook up to the laundry room in the FLSR (I still go there–much cheaper than my current apartment) and worked on my novel while waiting for the laundry to finish. \u00a0Good times–some of my best writing has come out of that laundry room. \u00a0Award winning writing.<\/p>\n

In tangentially related news, I still have not heard back from Writers of the Future. \u00a0I’m guessing that’s a good thing <crosses fingers>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is. \u00a0This is the final revision of Genesis Earth before I submit this novel everywhere, and it’s tough. \u00a0I’m changing a lot more than I thought I would, and it’s going a lot slower than any other process so far. Plus, on my way to Murray for my mission reunion, the service light for… Continue reading Polishing is harder than it looks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[34,42,182,315,156,39,37,84,247],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-college-life","tag-frustrations","tag-humor","tag-mission","tag-revising","tag-schoolwork","tag-spirituality","tag-world-fantasy-2009","tag-writers-of-the-future","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-im","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}