{"id":964,"date":"2010-10-19T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-10-19T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:37:45","slug":"thrilling-tales-clockwork-book-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/19\/thrilling-tales-clockwork-book-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: Clockwork Book Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\"The\n

\nI don’t do a lot of analytical thinking about where<\/em> a story is between its first draft and the point where the changes I can make aren’t making the story better any more. What I seem to get are these<\/em> stages:<\/p>
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1. First Draft! Woooo!<\/p>\n

2. OhMyGodWe’reAllGoingToDie<\/p>\n

3. All done<\/p>
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Number 2 can go on for quite awhile.<\/p>\n

But today The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/em> has come out of the OhMyGodWe’reAllGoingToDie stage and hovers at what I guess is about Step 2.9: I’ve made all the big changes, medium sized changes, and tiny polishing changes that I’ve ever meant to do. So the sensible thing is to leave it alone for a day and then give it another complete read-through (it’s always difficult to read it like I’ve never read it before) before what I think will be a final polishing stage. Of course, my mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

But the upshot is that I’m now very close to the point where I can start in on the illustrations. Once I’ve got about 24 of those done the story can go live, a page at a time, at the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a><\/em> site. And I can then turn back to Part Two of The Toaster With TWO BRAINS<\/a><\/em> <\/a>– until I start to run low on Clockwork Book<\/em> illustrations, anyhow. <\/p>\n

The interesting ride that is that plan will be starting… sooner, now, if not yet soon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today The Lair of the Clockwork Book has come out of the OhMyGodWe’reAllGoingToDie stage and hovers at what I guess is about Step 2.9: I’ve made all the big changes, medium sized changes, and tiny polishing changes that I’ve ever meant to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}