{"id":29987,"date":"2012-11-07T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=29987"},"modified":"2012-11-07T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:51:50","slug":"on-novel-writing-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/on-novel-writing-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"On Novel Writing VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revision on my short novel is going a bit slower than I anticipated and hoped. While I\u2019d hoped to be nearly complete with the process this week, it\u2019s Wednesday and I\u2019m only a quarter of the way through the manuscript. But the process is proving effective.  I\u2019ve caught and corrected three or four typos in the first fifty pages. I\u2019ve also fleshed out ideas and added about 2,000 words to the text so far. I\u2019m primarily rephrasing sentences that I don\u2019t think flow or read well, and revising adjectives and verbs that don\u2019t quite accurately express the meanings I\u2019m striving for.  As an example, I changed the clause &#8220;Anastasia sneered&#8221; to &#8220;Anastasia snarled&#8221; not only because Anastasia doesn\u2019t have a personality that would \u201csneer,\u201d but because \u201csneer\u201d implies a deceitful, devious, wicked attitude while \u201csnarled\u201d conveys the appropriate amoral animalistic aggressiveness that suits the scenario. Furthermore, \u201csneered\u201d evokes a sense of languid pacing while \u201csnarled\u201d implies immediacy and suddenness. My revision process may be taking a bit longer than anticipated, but I\u2019m being careful to examine every word to make sure that every sentence reads the way I want it to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revision on my short novel is going a bit slower than I anticipated and hoped. While I\u2019d hoped to be nearly complete with the process this week, it\u2019s Wednesday and I\u2019m only a quarter of the way through the manuscript. But the process is proving effective. I\u2019ve caught and corrected three or four typos in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29988,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions\/29988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}