{"id":2418,"date":"2009-02-25T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:23:55","slug":"reading-old-novel-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/02\/25\/reading-old-novel-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading an Old Novel of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in 2009 or 2010, I&#8217;ll publish Pixie Dust, one of the many novels I&#8217;ve written, but have been waiting in the wings until their time comes.  It was written in 1999 and I haven&#8217;t touched it since 2004.  Needless to say, when I read it over the past few days, it was clear it needs a lot of work.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The story is great.  The plot will survive untouched and most characters are dead on.  In fact, of the novels I shared with my mother, she liked this one the best because it was more of a mystery than a science fiction story. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, I&#8217;ve written a lot since this one, and I&#8217;ve improved.  Every scene will have to be re-written.  Some sub-plots have to be re-paced.  I may even have to tidy up the ending.  Looking at the story from this distance in time gives me a better editorial perspective.  I love the story, but the text needs work in many ways.  There&#8217;s a lot of work to be done\u2013much more than dropping the text into InDesign and laying it out.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But that will be fun.  I bet I can make a good story great.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in 2009 or 2010, I&#8217;ll publish Pixie Dust, one of the many novels I&#8217;ve written, but have been waiting in the wings until their time comes. It was written in 1999 and I haven&#8217;t touched it since 2004. Needless to say, when I read it over the past few days, it was clear it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/02\/25\/reading-old-novel-of-mine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading an Old Novel of Mine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,226,24,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-D0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}