{"id":548,"date":"2004-02-11T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=548"},"modified":"2004-02-11T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:30:15","slug":"bottom-up-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/bottom-up-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom-up editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nstockdale.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_nstockdale_archive.html#107644224268901170\">Nicole<\/a> offers a bit of novel advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get in the habit of doing one read on stories backward, starting with the last paragraph, then the second-to-last, etc. This will allow you to focus on the grammar and individual words rather than the story line. It&#8217;s usually where I find story holes or facts contradicting one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(It&#8217;s novel because it never occurred to me)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole offers a bit of novel advice: Get in the habit of doing one read on stories backward, starting with the last paragraph, then the second-to-last, etc. This will allow you to focus on the grammar and individual words rather&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/bottom-up-editing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}