{"id":2131,"date":"2012-12-30T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2012-12-30T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T17:10:45","slug":"red-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/red-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Red ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has been pretty quiet this month, not just because of the holidays, but also because I got my editorial letter for Fallen World book 3 at the very beginning of December.  So I have been hard at work over the last few weeks, revising the book into the best possible trilogy end I can make it.  And since I just finished up (this round &#8212; there&#8217;s another to come) today, I thought I&#8217;d share a little of the process.<\/p>\n<p>I love computers.  They are wonderful devices that make many things possible!  And I do almost all of my writing, rewriting, and revising on my laptop.  But before I send a new draft to my editor, I always print the manuscript out and go over it with red pen.  For some reason it&#8217;s harder to miss typos and awkward wording on printed paper than on the screen.  And there&#8217;s a funny sort of pleasure to crossing out unnecessary lines and noting corrections in red ink.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t go easy on myself.  Here are a couple of representative pages &#8212; and remember, this is polishing things up <i>after<\/i> I already finished the main revision:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/twwmredink.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rare page that has no red on it at all.  My books aren&#8217;t perfect, and they will never please everyone (as with any book, really!), but I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;m not going to get them as close to my idea of perfect as I can before I allow them out into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has been pretty quiet this month, not just because of the holidays, but also because I got my editorial letter for Fallen World book 3 at the very beginning of December. So I have been hard at work &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/red-ink\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}