{"id":14827,"date":"2020-12-03T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2020-12-03T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:08:09","slug":"expository-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14827","title":{"rendered":"Expository weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo credit: Sergey Zolkin @szolkin, Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once again tonight,<\/strong> I have nothing to review for you. This book I\u2019m reading, which I mentioned yesterday, continues a slow read. I\u2019ve figured out the reason \u2013 it\u2019s longer than a federal regulation. I bought it assuming it was an ordinary World War II thriller, but it turns out to be more than 500 pages long \u2013 an epic. And although I remain interested in the events, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s enough story here to support that much expository weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also a reproach to me as a writer. Because as I continue working on the new Erling book (still haven\u2019t come up with a title), my word count is lower than I think it should be \u2013 like butter spread over not enough bread, as Bilbo would say. People expect epic fantasy books to run at least 80,000 words or so nowadays, and I\u2019m not sure I can make it that long. I don\u2019t want to just pad the story, but I’d rather not disappoint the reader either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have the idea my prose used to take up more space. Maybe I\u2019m a victim of my own efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again tonight, I have nothing to review for you. This book I\u2019m reading, which I mentioned yesterday, continues a slow read. I\u2019ve figured out the reason \u2013 it\u2019s longer than a federal regulation. I bought it assuming it was an ordinary World War II thriller, but it turns out to be more than 500 … Continue reading Expository weight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[3537],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing","tag-word-count"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14829,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/14829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}