{"id":419,"date":"2010-06-18T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-06-18T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T18:11:12","slug":"writing-a-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Writing A Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One benefit of writing this blog is that I thought it would be useful to use to look back on and chart the progress of the writing over the course &#8212; and part of the course assessment is for us to write a 2,000 word commentary on exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>This has to be done by Wednesday &#8212; pretty easy I smugly thought &#8212; I&#8217;ll just cut and paste the writing-related entries into a document and edit them a bit. I just did this, along with the content of a couple of e-mails I&#8217;ve sent the tutors with my expostulations, and found the document is a mere 24,790 words long.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s extra stuff we need to put in the commentary as well that&#8217;s not covered in the blog (like consider in depth which authors are in our genre and who publishes them) so it looks like I&#8217;m going to have to edit 95% of the words away &#8212; probably harder than writing it from scratch. However, it&#8217;s useful to go back and have dates associated with feelings of satisfaction and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>I need a blurb too&#8230;maybe I&#8217;ll post that on here to see if anyone might think it sells the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One benefit of writing this blog is that I thought it would be useful to use to look back on and chart the progress of the writing over the course &#8212; and part of the course assessment is for us to write a 2,000 word commentary on exactly that. This has to be done by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing A Commentary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[354,352,93,353,356,355,357],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-process","tag-assessment","tag-blogging","tag-certificate-in-novel-writing-course","tag-commentary","tag-frustration","tag-progress","tag-satisfaction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}