{"id":276,"date":"2008-10-20T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:56:34","slug":"20-through-the-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/20-through-the-rewrite\/","title":{"rendered":"20% through the rewrite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but yesterday I got to page 117 in the revision of The Phoenix of Nova Terra<\/em>.\u00a0 Divide that number by the total pages of the current draft, and you get .20blahblahblah.<\/p>\n

So, I guess you could say that I’m roughly 20% through with this revision.\u00a0 In reality, I have no way to tell–I’m expecting the final wordcount to be significantly smaller than what I have right now, so in terms of pages I might be quite a bit further.\u00a0 Or, the stuff I have to revise might<\/em> be a lot more difficult than the stuff I’ve worked on so far, so I might be much further behind than 20%.<\/p>\n

Whatever.\u00a0 It’s a statistic.\u00a0 Am I having fun doing this?\u00a0 I suppose…though I wish my life were better organized right now.\u00a0 20% doesn’t mean much when you consider that the semester is half over.\u00a0 How in the heck am I going to have three polished novels by November 2009?\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n

On a happier note, I took a midterm today and freaking owned <\/em>it!\u00a0 HIST 240, Middle East history up to 1800–I got a 98% on the t\/f \/ multiple choice.\u00a0 YEAH!<\/em>\u00a0 The short answer wasn’t that much harder, either.<\/p>\n

Also, this Sunday I decided to just sit down and do my work for a change.\u00a0 Homework was backed up (which is unfortunate–I really do like to keep Sundays open for non-school non-work related activities), but I got all the stuff finished that needed to be done, and dove into both my novels right afterward.\u00a0 By midnight, I’d written 500 words for Hero in Exile<\/em> and revised 6+ pages of Phoenix.<\/em>\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Both goals, hit right on the head.\u00a0 I need more days like that.<\/p>\n

When I should be doing other things, I’m reading Mistborn 3: Hero of Ages<\/em>, and it’s really interesting so far (which is to say that the first five chapters are interesting).\u00a0 I really<\/em> enjoyed the first Mistborn book, but didn’t enjoy the second one as much.\u00a0 However, I think that has to do more with the fact that it’s the middle book of a trilogy, and so most of the conflicts were left unresolved.\u00a0 Also, the opening section took a lot of time to introduce the characters and the world.\u00a0 The final book dives right into the action and doesn’t take time to describe anything that readers of the first two books wouldn’t already know.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Brandon, I read an interesting post on his website that basically tells what writing was like for him before he got published<\/a>. I’ve heard his how-I-got-published story a few times now, but I’d never heard about any of this stuff before, and I found it really interesting.\u00a0 Also, it was really interesting to hear about the struggles and uncertainty that comes along with being an unpublished writer, because…that’s where I am right now.\u00a0 Or rather, I’m right at the start of the trail, so it’s very good to hear about someone else who went through the woods and made it out to the other side.\u00a0 I want to know what I can expect for the next five to ten years of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but yesterday I got to page 117 in the revision of The Phoenix of Nova Terra.\u00a0 Divide that number by the total pages of the current draft, and you get .20blahblahblah. So, I guess you could say that I’m roughly 20% through with this revision.\u00a0 In reality,… Continue reading 20% through the rewrite<\/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":[44],"tags":[42,39,4],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-frustrations","tag-schoolwork","tag-the-lost-colony","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}