{"id":30648,"date":"2020-05-22T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30648"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:15:41","slug":"about-my-french-about-my-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30648","title":{"rendered":"About my French, About my book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.secondsale.com\/images\/44e1dacc10ff7ce6b0e3a5dbe619c869.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I told my French pen pal &#8220;S&#8221; a week ago that I would be busy writing my campaign book and not to expect me to be available to pen. My Pal misses me but now S will write a lot while I&#8217;m asleep and when I wake I&#8217;ll write a lot back. Its more like answering emails than having a slow typing conversation.<\/p>\n<p>S has began studying English in school. We are only three days apart in age so we have a lot of contemporary history in common only mine is from and American experience and S&#8217;s comes from the French experience. I only began studying French about 770 days ago. I know because my cellphone french software keeps track for me. I have had a couple breaks lasting a day or two but I&#8217;m not counting them. I spent much of the summer last year doing the bare minimum but I did something. There are times when I put in a couple hours a day. I guess I decided back at the beginning I was going to learn to speak French come hell or high water or a campaign for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>With my help S is getting back into practice. S even bought a book about France I mentioned which is in English. Its &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B008QYTJZO\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&#038;btkr=1\">The Black Count<\/a>&#8221; about the father of the great French writer Alexandre Dumas who wrote the Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires). S just ordered the book and began reading it. S told me that it was surprisingly easy to read and S was pleased. I told S that I hoped someday I could do the same in French. I also noted that because the book won the much coveted American Pulitzer Prize it was a good book to dig into to practice English and learn new vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>S has been reading my blog too and been following my eccentric politics. S asked me last night about just how I&#8217;m going about writing my book after I told S. my writing has been going amazingly well this week. Yesterday despite a lot of fresh writing I spent nine hours working on it and roughed out 10,000 pages. So this is what I wrote back to S this morning about my book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>About my book<\/strong>. Yes much of it comes from my previous writing. My published columns don&#8217;t need much editing because I cleaned them up before people read them. My blog posts are much more casually composed and I rarely edit them as carefully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am using my older writing like stepping stones. They tell about my past experiences but I am connecting them to make the whole story flow. Yesterday I added a lot of new writing about my college years. That is much slower work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am up to 6 chapters. I am trying to do 2-a-day now. Chapters are about 5,000 words each. At the moment it looks like I have 7 to 9 more chapters ahead of me. I would love to have them written roughly by the end of next week. Then I can begin arranging for a printer but I will still have a lot of polishing to do.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its just past 8AM now so I&#8217;ll have a good day ahead of me to write. I&#8217;ll probably mow the lawn between chapters to freshen up for the second one today. Life&#8217;s obligations continue even during a corona virus sequestering.  Before I start though I&#8217;ll link to a couple more news stories sans comment. S has been reading them to figure out what the Hell is going on in America. I hope S has known me long enough now not to take me too seriously. Its bad enough when I do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told my French pen pal &#8220;S&#8221; a week ago that I would be busy writing my campaign book and not to expect me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,131,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30649,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648\/revisions\/30649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}