{"id":69,"date":"2016-01-27T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:23:34","slug":"taste-of-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I did a lot of editing today during my breaks and lunch. The editing process has turned into a rewriting process. Here&#8217;s some of what I did:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brent opened the door. Waters was holding ap piece of paper in his hand as he glared at the door. &#8220;What do <em>you<\/em> want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters&#8217; room was the size of a closet and spartan like most of the rooms of any soldier. He had a makeshift desk of two folding chairs and a piece of leftover plywood straddled across the chairs. Located right beside his bed, the desk contained a laptop and some pictures in frames. Waters was in a t-shirt and tan uniform ants, his uniform tunic in a heap on the cot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want you to give me a briefing on the dragons,&#8221; Brent said.<\/p>\n<p>Waters looked beyond Brent. Standing the the doorway, Olron watched the two. Waters said, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you ask him yourself?&#8221; He looked directly at Olron as he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should know some of them are not forthcoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe because your a magician.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Magus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters ignored the correction. &#8220;Ask Makkah to tell you the story of his birth and what he used to do. Ask Tyrath where he&#8217;s from. Ask Baldar why he avoids people. Ask Olron why he&#8217;s even here.&#8221; Waters crossed his arms. &#8220;Do some work for once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brent&#8217;s fury came rushing up like bile, making his face hot. &#8220;What the fuck do you think I&#8217;ve been doing all day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lighting up the HLZ? You might as well have called down the mortars on your position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was personal,&#8221; said Brent, hunching his shoulders a little.He didn&#8217;t think anyone would have noticed. Someone obviously did. \u00a0&#8220;Besides, that has nothing to do with Schiffer&#8217;s new orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to put that on me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re the one that said they were bullet-proof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a lot of editing today during my breaks and lunch. The editing process has turned into a rewriting process. Here&#8217;s some of what I did: Brent opened the door. Waters was holding ap piece of paper in his hand as he glared at the door. &#8220;What do you&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=69\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}