{"id":2974,"date":"2014-02-26T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:51","slug":"writing-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/writing-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"I am writing. I promise."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2975\" style=\"width: 1279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/screencap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2975 \" alt=\"editing The Panic Pure\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/screencap.jpg?resize=1279%2C720\" width=\"1279\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editing The Panic Pure while watching The Venture Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I write in Scrivener, edit in OpenOffice with Changes on, update my Scrivener file, then create a mobi to read on my Kindle where I can note minor changes still to make. In all, I read through each section 3-4 times before I do the final read through.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>I have plans for The Panic Pure in the near future, which is why I need to clean it up and get it ready. As a result, I&#8217;m reading through it again and doing some editing work. As you can see, there&#8217;s a lot that goes in to making a manuscript truly readable.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I&#8217;m done, every single paragraph will be coated in red and blue. There&#8217;s something oddly satisfying about seeing how much has been made different from one stage to the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write in Scrivener, edit in OpenOffice with Changes on, update my Scrivener file, then create a mobi to read on my Kindle where I can note minor changes still to make. In all, I read through each section 3-4 times before I do the final read through. * I have plans for The Panic&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/writing-promise\/\" title=\"I am writing. I promise.\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am writing. I promise.<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,62],"tags":[288,560,716],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-notes-writing-2","category-self-publishing","tag-editing","tag-peebled","tag-the-panic-pure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-LY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/scrivener-for-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":2974,"position":0},"title":"Scrivener for Windows","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"October 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I am currently using the Scrivener for Windows beta. There's still a few bugs to it, but I'm pretty sure it's my new love. Used in conjunction with LibreOffice, it has become my new \"thing.\" I use the note cards on the cork board to kind of outline my story\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Product Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Product Reviews","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/product-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1734,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-panic-pure\/","url_meta":{"origin":2974,"position":1},"title":"The Panic Pure","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"October 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Panic Pure is one of those stories that came out of me in a great big rush of words and images, like my head exploded. Then it sputtered, and now it's slowed to a trickle. I'm still writing on it, but it's getting harder and harder. 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