{"id":4968,"date":"2017-07-28T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2017-07-27T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:55:27","slug":"the-grit-gets-finer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-grit-gets-finer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grit Gets Finer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Elsewhere-Cover-Crop-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elsewhere's Twin by Rune Skelley\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>The next book we&#8217;ll release is titled <em>Elsewhere&#8217;s Twin<\/em>. It&#8217;s the third Divided Man book, following <em>Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device<\/em> and <em>Tenpenny Zen<\/em>. We&#8217;re thrilled at the prospect of having the completed series out.<\/p>\n<p>With its publication date looming, we&#8217;ve been pushing to get through another editing pass. Jen built up a head start, and Kent is coming through in her wake. This gives us each a better chance to catch things, really lets two heads be better than one. We notice different kinds of issues, which is great. We cover more of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>This manuscript has already been revised a few times, so the major surgery&#8217;s been handled. What we&#8217;re doing now is line edits, mainly. Jen has a bit of an advantage, going first, so she&#8217;s been trimming more words out than Kent has. It&#8217;s working out to about a 5:1 ratio.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re pleased to see that pattern, because it means the book is in really good shape. It&#8217;s being polished now, not reshaped. Each successive edit has produced a smaller impact on the word count than the one before it. The bulky tools have been put away in favor of more delicate instruments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chainsaw<\/li>\n<li>machete<\/li>\n<li>scalpel<\/li>\n<li>coarse-grit sandpaper<\/li>\n<li>fine-grit sandpaper <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&lt;&#8211;<\/strong> <em>we are here<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>silk handkerchief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editing with a partner makes the process much more efficient, if you have good teamwork.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next book we&#8217;ll release is titled Elsewhere&#8217;s Twin. It&#8217;s the third Divided Man book, following Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device and Tenpenny Zen. We&#8217;re thrilled at the prospect of having the completed series out. With its publication date looming, we&#8217;ve been pushing to get through another editing pass. Jen built up a head start, and Kent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing-revision","tag-divided-man-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}