{"id":5980,"date":"2010-11-30T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/11\/30\/nanowrimo-no-nanoedmo-yes\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:08:51","slug":"nanowrimo-no-nanoedmo-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/11\/30\/nanowrimo-no-nanoedmo-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo?  No  &mdash;  NaNoEdMo?  Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"goright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/MerlynSpiral_Medium.jpg?w=220\" alt=\"THE MERLINS SPIRAL\"  \/> Okay, so I haven&#8217;t taken part in NaNoWriMo<\/strong> (although my daughter, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EpicTales.org\/blog\/nessblog.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ness<\/a><\/strong>, has, despite her computer crashing on Thanksgiving).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I have been doing is editing MERLIN&#8217;S BLADE<\/strong> in a serious way during November, so I guess you could say I&#8217;m taking part in NaNoEdMo, National Novel Editing Month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The changes are the result of professional feedback<\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbgraham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.B. Graham<\/a> <\/strong> , <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdsmith.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.D. Smith<\/a> <\/strong> , and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenlawhead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Lawhead<\/a> <\/strong> &#8230; L.B. and S.D. read all of Merlin&#8217;s Blade and gave some great constructive feedback. Stephen only read a small portion of my work, but his input is still incredibly valuable, as one might guess.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the big changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A New Beginning &#8230; !<\/strong> I&#8217;m bringing back about two and a half chapters that I had previously cut&#8230; This will allow for a more natural beginning to the novel and will solidify Merlin&#8217;s relationship with Garth. This will then help the reader understand what follows&#8230; No fear &#8230; this section still has plenty of action and suspense, and even includes a completely new introduction of my primary villain &#8230; Morganthu!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Less Poetry.<\/strong> Oh well, it has to be done&#8230; I have 70 lines or so of poetry in Part I, about the same in Part III, but over 250 lines in Part II&#8230; I just have to trim that down a bit to give the center of the book more momentum&#8230; But never fear, I will either move this poetry to future books or else publish it online&#8230; Most of it is orignal Celtic prayers and songs I have written, or Celtic scripture I have &#8220;translated&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Internal Polish.<\/strong> This is to clarify some minor points that caused confusion. Lots of little things here that will improve the reading experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name Simplification.<\/strong> Okay, so it was high-time to make the pro-nuns-ification of the names a lot easier&#8230; I have simplified the spelling of a lot of the names, come up with a pronounciation guide, as well as a character and location glossarry. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name Historicization. <\/strong> Stephen Lawhead suggested this to just make absolute certain that my names are historical. This went hand in hand (if it were possible!) with simplifying the names&#8230; The vast majority were already 100% historical, but upon further research, I did have to alter or completely change some of the names. One side-benefit from this research is that I have a completely new, historical and story-based explanation for the name of the High King&#8217;s bard, Colvarth. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"goright\" title=\"MERLIN'S BLADE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/MB_FrontCover.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"MERLIN'S BLADE\"  \/> <strong>Overall, MERLIN&#8217;S BLADE will be much stronger after this draft<\/strong> , and I am deeply indebted to those that have given me feedback&#8230; My sidebar now reflects my progress on the editing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those of you who have a copy<\/strong> of my book, I will (if you are interested) make the new draft available to you electronically. At the least, the new beginning of the novel could use some feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Robert<\/p>\n<p>Views: 16<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOkay, so I haven&#8217;t taken part in NaNoWriMo (although my daughter, Ness, has, despite her computer crashing on Thanksgiving). What&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/11\/30\/nanowrimo-no-nanoedmo-yes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;NaNoWriMo?  No  &mdash;  NaNoEdMo?  Yes!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,51,48,66,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-editing-fiction","category-l-b-graham","category-s-d-smith","category-stephen-lawhead","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MerlynSpiral_Medium25.jpg?fit=320%2C160","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1ys","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}