{"id":4777,"date":"2011-12-16T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2011-12-17T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:01:47","slug":"bookin-it-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4777","title":{"rendered":"Bookin it 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve not added any new pages since the last BI post. I have put in considerable time digging trenches. I’ve tentatively developed a string of prospective chapters – 60 plus with titles. If I’m to keep this below 300 words I’ll have to keep them averaging about 5 pages in length. That’s a good size for me. I’m leaving space for a glossary, bibliography, endnotes and index. These won’t count in my self imposed page limitation of 300 pages.<\/p>\n

I’ve applied a half dozen possible titles to the Book over the past several years. Its still untitled. The tag at the bottom of all the Book it<\/em> posts should read Rat’s sacrifice. That part of one possible title however, when I typed it in I gave it the singular possessive spelling. It should be plural possessive.<\/p>\n

I edited some of the contents of one chapter yesterday and added another page in the process. A few months ago this was still a daunting process. Today it doesn’t seem so. I still have lots of reading and file shuffling ahead of me but I can now see the horizon. Once I’ve finished digging the trenches I should be able to go over the top and knock out five pages a day. That might not happen until Februrary but even before then I’ll keep cranking out a few pages every couple of days.<\/p>\n

I have a new respect for historical writing. Fiction is unmoored from the requirement of laying evidence out. Its like the stuff Rush Limbaugh spews out. I just won’t be able to count on “dittoheads” to buy my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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