Happy Chinese Pyrotechnics Day!<\/p>\n
Edit Hell continues, which is a bad thing, since not a lot of work is going to get done today, and the random fireworks let off by the neighbors isn’t helping. By Thursday I should have my final notes in order, and then I have a decision to make as to when\/how\/if I’m going to change anything more in my manuscript. I have to give props to a wordsmith<\/a> and true friend who unknowingly caused me to be less hysterical and to allow S.A.M. to preserve the fiction that no one does anything wrong but the writer. It takes a bit of getting used to, but remember this from my little meltdown moment: until it’s published, your novel is not about you~!<\/em><\/p>\n After days in Edit Hell, one realizes that chocolate is actually its own food group. Amsterdam agrees. As reported in Arts<\/a> section of the NY Times<\/a>, this world’s largest cocoa port is developing a chocolate theme park<\/i>. A la Wonka,<\/a> there will be a glass elevator and chocolate fountain and produce small amounts of chocolate. !!!!!!!<\/strong> It’s due to open in a couple of years — people, start saving for the pilgrimage. (And Holland should start bracing for great Dutch Migration — between the hash and the chocolate, people will move there and never want to leave!!)<\/p>\n Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks that reuniting Nathaniel Hawthorne’s<\/a> decayed mortal remains<\/a> with those of his long dead wife is just weird? Or is Edit Hell leaching me of all romanticism?<\/p>\n I love poking around and finding bizarre book news, or what I<\/i> consider bizarre — but here’s one for most everyone’s list: the American Bar Association<\/a> has released its second novel in 127 years. It’s a YA novel. Obviously. I mean, isn’t the connection between the law and young adult literature obvious!?<\/a> Maybe not… Publishers Weekly<\/a> carried the report, describing the novel, Leapholes<\/a><\/em> as, according to Tim Brandhorst, ABA’s executive editor of publishing, “Harry Potter meets John Grisham. It’s time travel with a legal twist.”<\/p>\n I guess if you publish enough legal briefs, novels seem like a reasonable next step, I suppose. But it’s not, people. It’s just not. Although fantasy was a good genre choice… Okay, okay<\/i>. I reserve all judgment until I at least read the book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Chinese Pyrotechnics Day! Edit Hell continues, which is a bad thing, since not a lot of work is going to get done today,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}