{"id":10784,"date":"2007-01-18T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/one-left\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T23:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T04:25:19","slug":"one-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/one-left\/","title":{"rendered":"One left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had the final feedback session with reader number two for The Last Track, and it left me supercharged, ready to tackle the edits. Amazing how subtle suggestions can alter a passage so profoundly, yet even more incredible is the impact of hearing feedback with an open mind. It&#8217;s taken nearly four years to develop a listening style that works. Luck played a part; I drew a great team of readers. As much as they added to the manuscript&#8211;and in sum the contributions are enormous&#8211;I gained a lot personally, too.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know if any of The Eight or the Final Three might comment on this point, but I hope I made you feel heard; I certainly heard you. Bottom line: you all made me a better writer. For this I am indebted.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it&#8217;s about time more people discovered how skilled this crew is.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m working on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had the final feedback session with reader number two for The Last Track, and it left me supercharged, ready to tackle the edits. Amazing how subtle suggestions can alter a passage so profoundly, yet even more incredible is the impact of hearing feedback with an open mind. It&#8217;s taken nearly four years to develop a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","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=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}