{"id":193,"date":"2005-07-25T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2005-07-25T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:29:56","slug":"forgot-camera-ending-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/forgot-camera-ending-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgot Camera.  Ending a Novel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I forgot my camera at Terry Bisson&#039;s house the other day, Terry being a fellow SF writer.  He says he&#039;ll send it back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/laptop.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So I&#039;ll be relying on recycled images the next few days.  This week I&#039;m hoping to get near the end of my novel.  Reaching the end is always bittersweet &#8212; I get used to my invented world and hate to leave it; also there&#039;s always a feeling that I could have done more with the world than I did. The actuality of a work of art tends not quite to live up to the golden vision of it that one starts with.  Oh well, it&#039;s another pumpkin on the vine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m referring there to a phrase in Italo Calvino&#039;s marvellous <i>If On A Winter&#039;s Night A Traveller<\/i>, where he speaks of &#8220;someone who makes books the way a pumpkin vine makes pumpkins&#8230;&#8221;  He also has a character saying, &ldquo;The novel I would most like to read at this moment&#8230;should have as its driving force only the desire to narrate, to pile stories upon stories, without trying to impose a philosophy of life on you, simply allowing you to observe its own growth, like a tree, an entangling, as of branches and leaves&#8230;&rdquo;  The desire to narrate, yes.  Growing novels like pumpkins, yes.  So far, so good.  Thank you, Muse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I forgot my camera at Terry Bisson&#039;s house the other day, Terry being a fellow SF writer. He says he&#039;ll send it back. So I&#039;ll be relying on recycled images the next few days. This week I&#039;m hoping to get near the end of my novel. Reaching the end is always bittersweet &#8212; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}