{"id":601,"date":"2012-03-28T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:06:03","slug":"94193-and-the-editing-is-well-underway-completion-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"94,193 and the editing is well underway, completion this week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Bobby&#8217;s Back <\/em><\/strong>is now undergoing a concurrent edit by my lovely wife as I finish the book. It&#8217;s up to 94,193 words and very much so crisp and clean in my opinion. The last two days were tough as I had to go back and rip out all of the trash that seems to work its way into any book you write. I reread some parts and wondered when the aneurysm had burst and how I didn&#8217;t die if my brain had been so badly damaged as to include that dreck in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously&#8230; what possessed me to put such nonsense into an otherwise good book? \u00a0Well, it pained me to remove several thousand words that I&#8217;d worked hard on at one point but the book is much improved as a result. I&#8217;ve written a lot in the last week and while the word count is only a bit higher than the last time I posted there&#8217;s over 5K of new material that I&#8217;ve written in the meantime. Most of it pretty good. My editor will have the final opinion on that in a day or two. And then, it&#8217;s on to the agent&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m within 12 days of the end of the book in the book&#8217;s timeline. It&#8217;s got a pace problem&#8230; I&#8217;m out of breath trying to keep up with events! \u00a0Yup, it&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;can&#8217;t put it down&#8221; kind of a read. That makes me proud.<\/p>\n<p>So, before I forget, &#8220;Thanks, God. I appreciate the fact that you&#8217;re guiding my fingers on the keyboard.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t do it without him, nor would I want to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Keep praying, four days to go until this baby is done.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby&#8217;s Back is now undergoing a concurrent edit by my lovely wife as I finish the book. It&#8217;s up to 94,193 words and very much so crisp and clean in my opinion. The last two days were tough as I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=601\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,260,284,167,495,137,162,55,494,248,216],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-agent","tag-bobbys-back","tag-christian-fiction","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-editing","tag-god","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-novel","tag-thanks","tag-wife","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}