{"id":3434,"date":"2018-04-09T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2018-04-09T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T01:31:24","slug":"draft-no-4-on-the-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/04\/09\/draft-no-4-on-the-writing-process","title":{"rendered":"Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Draft-No-4-Writing-Process-ebook\/dp\/B06X18NHC1\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1523208143&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=draft+no+4&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkId=b66fd3137f2de72f382a3b2f012dcdd2\">Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee<\/a>, but then I read <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/144795\/can-afford-write-like-john-mcphee\">Who Can Afford to Write Like John McPhee?<\/a>. Apparently most of the book has already been published in The New Yorker. So I might just settle for the audiobook, and\/or read the articles in Instapaper (probably both; to listen to it in transit, with the ability to highlight notes in the articles). <\/p>\n<p>First, I needed a <a href=\"https:\/\/search.schlowlibrary.org\/Record\/412746\/TOC\">table of contents<\/a>. Then I found pretty much all his work at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/john-mcphee\">author page<\/a>. Now the articles, presented in order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2011\/11\/14\/progression\">Progression<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/01\/14\/structure\">Structure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/07\/02\/editors-publisher\">Editors &amp; publisher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/04\/07\/elicitation\">Elicitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/09\/frame-of-reference-john-mcphee\">Frame of reference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2009\/02\/09\/checkpoints\">Checkpoints<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/04\/29\/draft-no-4\">Draft no. 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/09\/14\/omission\">Omission.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to purchase Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee, but then I read Who Can Afford to Write Like John McPhee?. Apparently most of the book has already been published in The New Yorker. So I might just settle for the audiobook, and\/or read the articles in Instapaper (probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[1925,1488],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-john-mcphee","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-To","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}