{"id":40,"date":"2007-03-04T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/2007\/03\/04\/chapter-two\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T22:32:49","slug":"chapter-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/2007\/03\/04\/chapter-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

I killed my truck\u2019s engine outside \u2018Ama\u2019s house at five-fifty a.m. It was the Monday of my second week of work, and it was way too early \u2013 at this hour you could only hear a couple cars swoop down Ocean Boulevard, and three or four seagulls winging toward the water line. But \u2018Ama got up exactly at six, and so my sisters and I had to get in there before she opened her eyes. I hauled my guitar case out of the back and met Becky at the curb, blinking sleepily behind her glasses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry for the absence – the moot competition was all-consuming. The writers’ group really responded well to the first chapter, which was very gratifying. They specifically praised the voice and the main character for being real and interesting – a GIANT relief since I’ve been terrified trying to write a 1st person male narrator was an extremely bad idea, and I feel much better about plugging on with that kind of feedback from basically neutral folks. I LIKE Mike, and I like writing him.<\/p>\n

I’m sending them the 2nd chapter this week. It was nice to dive in and patch it back together. Chapter 2 used to be Chapter 1, so it needed some continuity and exposition-trimming work. I only wish I were forced to turn stuff in every week, since it’s been so hard to keep writing this semester without it. Hopefully now that the competition is over I can use the free(er) evenings to that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I killed my truck\u2019s engine outside \u2018Ama\u2019s house at five-fifty a.m. It was the Monday of my second week of work, and it was way too early \u2013 at this hour you could only hear a couple cars swoop down Ocean Boulevard, and three or four seagulls winging toward the water line. But \u2018Ama got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-laberinto-the-writing-process","category-oye-como-va-general-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}