{"id":905,"date":"2011-09-06T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2011-09-06T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:20:14","slug":"on-a-novel-titled-the-bird-saviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/06\/on-a-novel-titled-the-bird-saviors\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Novel Titled "The Bird Saviors""},"content":{"rendered":"

So a few months ago I blogged about finishing my new novel ms., The Bird Saviors<\/em>, & how the completion occurred by describing a rather simple detail\u2014a man drinking a glass of water\u2014that has greater implications and reverberations than one might usually think. Since then the novel went through the channels of agent, then editor, and is now bought (signed, sealed, delivered) and scheduled for publication in the spring. I’ve been writing on it for four years, which seems a lifetime.
\nIt was actually a “Lost” novel, in that I wrote a first draft, kept neglecting to back up the document on my laptop, whose harddrive subsequently crashed, destroying the entire novel. A 300-page ms gone\u2014no print-out, no nothing. I rewrote it from memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So a few months ago I blogged about finishing my new novel ms., The Bird Saviors, & how the completion occurred by describing a rather simple detail\u2014a man drinking a glass of water\u2014that has greater implications and reverberations than one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t