{"id":386,"date":"2007-05-06T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T15:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/weekly-summary-april-29\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T15:55:46","slug":"weekly-summary-april-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/weekly-summary-april-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=52&#038;aid=122447\">Let&#8217;s Try It One More Time: A Tale of Three Best-Sellers<\/a> &#8212; some examples of bestselling novels that underwent extensive revision:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>What impresses &#8212; and consoles me &#8212; about these over-the-top tales of revision behind successful writing is the commitment of these writers to push themselves and their willingness to jettison reams of copy in search of an acceptable version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zanzjan.livejournal.com\/27008.html\">Zanzjan on sequels<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The first tricksy thing is finding a balance of clueing in some of the past without making the book FEEL like a sequel&#8230;.So, for those of you who write stuff that are discrete stories set in a single universe, how do you maintain that balance, or do you assiduously avoid letting works cross-pollinate? As a reader, what strategies of this sort makes you crazy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Good comments in the, uh, comments.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s Try It One More Time: A Tale of Three Best-Sellers &#8212; some examples of bestselling novels that underwent extensive revision: What impresses &#8212; and consoles me &#8212; about these over-the-top tales of revision behind successful writing is the commitment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/weekly-summary-april-29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}