{"id":202,"date":"2008-03-31T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-03-31T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T07:37:20","slug":"500-words-and-a-major-rewrite-of-the-first-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/500-words-and-a-major-rewrite-of-the-first-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"500 words and a major rewrite of the first chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, boy, I&#8217;m going to be tired tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But yeah, I did a lot of writing today.\u00a0 And a lot of hanging out with friends as well.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun, but probably not so productive.\u00a0 But oh well&#8211;it was Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I finished up the chapter, exactly as I had my goal for this week.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m about two chapters from the end (that is, unless something crazy happens).\u00a0 So, inshallah, I can get those chapters finished before finals week.<\/p>\n<p>The really cool thing is that I&#8217;ve got finals week almost totally open.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any finals until the last couple of days, and only three that are going to take any real work.\u00a0 One of them is open notes, so really it&#8217;s a measure of how much work I&#8217;ve done throughout the class more than how much I&#8217;ve studied for the test.\u00a0 Same with the Arabic test&#8211;you can&#8217;t really cram for it.\u00a0 And the other poli sci test?\u00a0 If it&#8217;s anything like the others, it won&#8217;t be an issue.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be rewriting the first couple of chapters except that I need to in order to prepare for the English 318 final.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s quite as polished as it could be, but I think it&#8217;s better.\u00a0 The POV probably needs to be a bit closer to the viewpoint character, however, in order to give it that human interest.<\/p>\n<p>But yeah.\u00a0 That was basically my weekend&#8211;writing and hanging out with friends.\u00a0 I did accomplish most of my poli sci homework, but the Arabic&#8230;what can I say?\u00a0 I&#8217;m behind on the point sheet (as usual), but I <em>have <\/em>been reading other texts outside of class, and that&#8217;s been helping my Arabic quite a bit.\u00a0 What I really need to do is write in my Arabic blog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But not now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got to go to bed.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>And sorry for this boring post.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/\/ap080329.html\">Here&#8217;s something cool <\/a>to make things more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, boy, I&#8217;m going to be tired tomorrow!<\/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":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-lost-colony","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}