{"id":1845,"date":"2009-07-27T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2009-07-27T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:14:10","slug":"literary-grumpiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"Literary grumpiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>obviously, being unwell doesn&#8217;t agree with my sunny disposition; no gerbils were harmed in the writing of this piece<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When an author, you know, actually sits down and <em>finishes<\/em> a piece of work, and spends the best part of six weeks editing, re-editing, re-re-editing, re-re-re-editing, re-re-re-re-editing and then doing even further editing, and then tarts it all up and writes an accompanying <em>killer <\/em>synopsis and bundles the whole thing up and sends it off to one&#8217;s agent, one has a set of expectations.<\/p>\n<p>But one doesn&#8217;t expect the first publisher who has a good, long, hard look at it, to suggest a rewrite to the extent that the genders of the two leading characters are reversed.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if the point of the novel is to tell a story from the perspective of Character A who, for the sake of illustration, we&#8217;ll call a female gerbil, what the hell is the point of the publisher saying they&#8217;d like to see it rewritten so the story is as told from the perspective of Character B, a male gerbil?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the whole <em>reason <\/em>for the story you dozy twonks.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that this particular story is told from the perspective of the female gerbil.<\/p>\n<p>Give me strength.<\/p>\n<p>I need a mug of tea and I need it stat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>obviously, being unwell doesn&#8217;t agree with my sunny disposition; no gerbils were harmed in the writing of this piece When an author, you know, actually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}