{"id":2329,"date":"2012-03-02T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2012-05-20T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:22:57","slug":"rewriting-the-rich-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/rewriting-the-rich-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting The Rich Are Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in the post office the oth\u00ader day, a cou\u00adple of postal work\u00aders who bought <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006FYKUMS\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chrisorcutweb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B006FYKUMS\" target=\"_blank\">A Real Piece of Work<\/a><\/em> com\u00adpli\u00adment\u00aded me on the writ\u00ading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt reads so smooth\u00adly,\u201d one of them said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like it\u2019s effort\u00adless for you,\u201d said anoth\u00ader.<\/p>\n<p>Then they asked what I was up to now. I told them, \u201cRework\u00ading the sec\u00adond book in the series so it reads like the first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, yes\u00adter\u00adday I fin\u00adished a new revi\u00adsion of the nov\u00adel\u2014<em>The Rich Are Dif\u00adfer\u00adent<\/em>\u2014and I was remind\u00aded of some\u00adthing Michael Crich\u00adton once said about his own strug\u00adgles with revi\u00adsion. He said, \u201cBooks aren\u2019t written\u2014they\u2019re rewritten\u2026.It is one of the hard\u00adest things to accept, espe\u00adcial\u00adly after the sev\u00adenth rewrite hasn\u2019t quite done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lost count which rewrite of <em>The Rich Are Dif\u00adfer\u00adent<\/em> that I\u2019m on, but I\u2019m sure there will be 2\u20133 more before I\u2019m through.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Long sigh.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in the post office the oth\u00ader day, a cou\u00adple of postal work\u00aders who bought A Real Piece of Work com\u00adpli\u00adment\u00aded me on the writ\u00ading.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-craft","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","category-the-rich-are-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}