{"id":660,"date":"2012-11-27T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-11-27T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:25:32","slug":"temporal-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Temporal Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"calendar\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/calendar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/>I&#8217;ve been cranking along on a novel, trying to wrap us some revisions and new wordcount on a deadline, and I&#8217;m starting to realize that past versions of myself are really screwing me over.\u00a0 I have enough problems with coherent plotting without various past versions of me leaving notes detailing contradictory versions of what they seem to think are brilliant ideas on directions that I could take the novel.<\/p>\n<p>One past version of me will posit an idea for a scene involving, say, Vicar Dumbarton challenging someone to a race in his new Model A at the Armistice Day Cotillion, then <em>another<\/em> past version of me will leave a note about some great scene where Vicar Dumbarton is eaten by an orca on the way to the Halloween party.\u00a0 And who gets stuck with reconciling all this?\u00a0 Present-day me, that&#8217;s who.<\/p>\n<p>Well, screw it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to pawn it off on future me.\u00a0 That poor sucker won&#8217;t know what hit him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cranking along on a novel, trying to wrap us some revisions and new wordcount on a deadline, and I&#8217;m starting to realize that past versions of myself are really screwing me over.\u00a0 I have enough problems with coherent plotting without various past versions of me leaving notes detailing contradictory versions of what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}