{"id":1073,"date":"2020-12-02T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:29:53","slug":"echoes-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/echoes-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, I start revisions on my novel from 2006. Or I should say, I start analyzing it to see if it deserves revision or complete restructuring. Today won&#8217;t be about writing as much as it will be about reading. I will spend the day going through the novel, seeing what works, what doesn&#8217;t work, what characters can stay, which ones need to go, etc. Once that&#8217;s done, the next step will be a beat sheet for every character who makes the cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently reading <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00DH40XQM\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00DH40XQM\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\">Story Physics, by Larry Brooks.<\/a> I found his book, Story Engineering, an informative read, and I&#8217;m hoping to get plenty of instruction from this book as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, today, it&#8217;s all about learning and observing. Check the current architecture, see if it has a strong foundation or if it&#8217;s built out of cardboard. Will I be able to remodel, or will I need to raze it to the ground and start over? Those are the questions I&#8217;m seeking to answer today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I start revisions on my novel from 2006. Or I should say, I start analyzing it to see if it deserves revision or complete restructuring. Today won&#8217;t be about writing as much as it will be about reading. I will spend the day going through the novel, seeing what works, what doesn&#8217;t work, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}