{"id":21402,"date":"2016-03-22T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:36:29","slug":"love-is-never-still-featured-in-mary-robinettes-my-favorite-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21402","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLove Is Never Still\u201d featured in Mary Robinette\u2019s My Favorite Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/love-is-never-still\/\">Love Is Never Still<\/a>&#8221; is featured today on Mary Robinette Kowal&#8217;s blog. For the My Favorite Bit series, authors write short essays about their favorite parts of their work.<\/p>\n<p>I cheated a little, but only because it&#8217;s honestly true: &#8220;My favorite bit about \u201cLove Is Never Still\u201d is probably also my least favorite bit: the complex layers I built in over the course of four months of intense revision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the essay, I discuss the techniques I used to layer complexity into the prose so that the sentences were densely packed with multiple meanings and purposes. I&#8217;m really proud of how the story came out, but it was a <em>lot<\/em> of work.<\/p>\n<p>Read the essay here: <a href=\"http:\/\/maryrobinettekowal.com\/journal\/my-favorite-bit\/favorite-bit-rachel-swirsky-talks-love-never-still\/\">http:\/\/maryrobinettekowal.com\/journal\/my-favorite-bit\/favorite-bit-rachel-swirsky-talks-love-never-still\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &ldquo;Love Is Never Still&rdquo; is featured today on Mary Robinette Kowal&rsquo;s blog. For the My Favorite Bit series, authors write short essays about their favorite parts of their work. I cheated a little, but only because it&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/03\/love-is-never-still-featured-in-mary-robinettes-my-favorite-bit\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21426,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions\/21426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}