{"id":15595,"date":"2021-07-21T19:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15595"},"modified":"2021-07-21T19:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T23:43:57","slug":"novel-writing-and-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15595","title":{"rendered":"Novel-Writing and Mower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At last I found a lawn guy. <\/strong>I chose the guy who put up a flyer at my church, rather than any of the hard-sell sharks who went all feeding-frenzy on me after I waded into the Home Advisor waters. I may be sorry I made the choice one day, but at the moment I\u2019m pleased with my sales resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No word on the car yet, of course. I have a Viking event this weekend (the link to the Little Log House Antique Power Show is here<\/a>, if you\u2019re going to be near Hastings, Minnesota), and I\u2019ve been forced to beg a ride from a fellow Viking who can accommodate all my stuff in his vehicle. I\u2019ll owe him a favor now\u2026 heaven knows what might be asked of me one day. (I draw the line at felony-level violence.) I hope to have the new paper edition of The Year of the Warrior <\/em>to sell at this event, and that kind of excites me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m almost surprised to say it, but the new novel, King of Rogaland<\/em>, is coming together, I think. Now that I\u2019m starting to get the various plot threads tied up properly, I like what I\u2019m seeing. I\u2019ve got ongoing themes happening here; a uniformity of effect (I hope). One oddity of this book (for me) is that it includes more embedded stories than my previous books. By that I mean a character in my story sitting down and telling a story of his own. These interpolated tales, in general (I think), also advance the unified theme. Another oddity is that there are no major battles (hypocritical of me, I suppose, as I\u2019ve criticized Stephen Lawhead for lacking the nerve to write battles). But the final confrontation is \u2013 I think \u2013 dramatic enough to have a similar artistic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read a quotation recently that impressed me. I don\u2019t recall the source, or the exact words. But the gist of it was, \u201cThe better you get as a writer, the harder writing will be for you, because your critical standards will be raised.\u201d<\/em> So just go ahead and do it \u2013 if you\u2019re having this problem, you\u2019re probably a better writer than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last I found a lawn guy. I chose the guy who put up a flyer at my church, rather than any of the hard-sell sharks who went all feeding-frenzy on me after I waded into the Home Advisor waters. I may be sorry I made the choice one day, but at the moment I\u2019m … Continue reading Novel-Writing and Mower<\/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":[4,17],"tags":[3603,3777],"class_list":["post-15595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-writing","tag-king-of-rogaland","tag-lawn-mowing"],"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\/15595","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=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15597,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}