{"id":3909,"date":"2013-01-14T05:43:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2013-03-23T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T14:30:54","slug":"editing-the-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"editing the detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting a new story, but I think that&#8217;s too ambitious while I&#8217;m in the middle of editing the <a href=\"index.php?page_id=1122\">mystery stories<\/a>. I&#8217;m working on a couple of ideas (basically a new mystery story and a sequel to <em>Stevie One<\/em>) but mostly I&#8217;m having fun with the editing.<\/p>\n<p>I see a lot of blog posts where people complain about editing. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m more predisposed toward it than anybody else, but I think a factor is time. I&#8217;m currently working on &#8220;The School Mystery,&#8221; which was originally written in the fall of 2007. It feels like the right time to give it a polish.<\/p>\n<p>Some blogs advise finishing that first draft, then putting it away for two weeks (or maybe a month) before starting edits. I agree that two weeks or a month is better than starting immediately, but it seems awfully quick to me. Everybody has their own methods, of course, but I find that it&#8217;s good to give myself time to think about a story (and to let it rest while I think about other things). Perspective doesn&#8217;t come (at least to me) in two weeks or a month.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to wait too long. When I was doing final edits on <em>A Sane Woman,<\/em> I found I couldn&#8217;t really write in the same voice anymore. But of course that was fourteen years later. <\/p>\n<p>What have you found works best for you? How long do you wait before starting edits? Or do you wait at all?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3909&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3909&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting a new story, but I think that&#8217;s too ambitious while I&#8217;m in the middle of editing the mystery stories. I&#8217;m working on a couple of ideas (basically a new mystery story and a sequel to Stevie One) but mostly I&#8217;m having fun with the editing. I see a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}