{"id":29,"date":"2012-04-05T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-04-06T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:18:07","slug":"too-early-for-boston-baked-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Too Early for Boston Baked Beans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to ask myself this morning, is 9:00 a.m. too early for Bush’s Best Boston Baked Beans? And then I opened a can and heated them up in the microwave and ate a bowl of the delicious molasses and brown sugar flavored legumes and said, no. 9:00 a.m. is probably too LATE for them. I should have had some at 7:30 a.m. when I started craving them. Meanwhile I ate two bowls of Strawberry Awake cereal to stave off the Boston Baked Beans craving. That NEVER works, you know. You can’t kill one craving with a different food. It just doubles the calorie intake.<\/p>\n

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These beans came from WalMart. So did the picture of them.<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, I’m sitting down today to begin the thinking process for my rewrite of my next novel. I finished the draft about a month ago, I’ve let it sit on the back burner while I did IMPORTANT things (like mop underneath the microwave cart for the first time in who-knows-how-long-oh-my-gosh) and caught up on kid projects. Can an Eagle project happen this spring? I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n

This is my plan for the rewrite: I will not go back and look at the draft. I will simply retell the story, scene by scene from memory. This would be actually pretty ineffective if I had a good memory. But because I have a pretty useless memory it’s going to be AWESOME. Counter-intuitive, I know. However, the big advantage of a terrible memory is I’ll only get the highlights. The best scenes, the most memorable moments will be the ones I can recall. Everything else will fall away. I can reconstruct the plot (which I didn’t do so well in the beginning as it was a NaNoWriMo <\/a>book with no prep-time) from the scene level, and then I’ll probably start with mostly fresh pages, possibly a bit of cut and paste from the original, and start fresh. It needs a clean start. Some novels just do.<\/p>\n

I did learn a great thing about myself doing this wacky NaNo dash. I’m not so much of a “pantser.” <\/a>I don’t do my best work writing by the seat of my pants. I’m so much happier as an outliner. This way, however, I get the advantage of surprise elements in the story (from this first draft) and the outlined version with a plot that actually hangs together. So it’s not all bad.<\/p>\n

And now that\u00a0I have the sustenance of the legume version of a warm gingersnap in my belly, I can get cracking on this outline!<\/p>\n\n

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I had to ask myself this morning, is 9:00 a.m. too early for Bush’s Best Boston Baked Beans? And then I opened a can and heated them up in the microwave and ate a bowl of the delicious molasses and brown sugar flavored legumes and said, no. 9:00 a.m. is probably too LATE for them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[21,17,22,18,19,20,765],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-editing","tag-food-cravings","tag-housework","tag-pantser-vs-outliner","tag-plotting","tag-rewriting","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}