{"id":10277,"date":"2004-09-30T23:14:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10277"},"modified":"2004-09-30T23:14:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T23:14:56","slug":"1-in-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/30\/1-in-10\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing through two hundred and fifty pages of Velocity reveals that very little is usable and for that I&#8217;m thankful.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Because reviewing the manuscript reminds me how crucial the revision component is.  Until I have a few more books under my belt and refine my personal \u201cformula\u201d the one in ten rule applies.  Basically, that rule states that for every ten pages of a manuscript &#8211; one page survives in the finished draft.   <\/p>\n<p>Example: of the three writing days this week so far, six out of thirty-five written or revised pages are solid.  Do they tell you that in a writing course? <\/p>\n<p>So this week I relearned that when in doubt about a writing impasse, write some more.  Taking hostages, jumping off bridges or drinking like Hemingway will not solve writing problems.  Although, of the three options, drinking has some merit.<\/p>\n<p>The query process starts anew on Friday.  And that&#8217;s all I have to say about that there writing stuff. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing through two hundred and fifty pages of Velocity reveals that very little is usable and for that I&#8217;m thankful. Why? Because reviewing the manuscript reminds me how crucial the revision component is. Until I have a few more books under my belt and refine my personal \u201cformula\u201d the one in ten rule applies. Basically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}