{"id":10803,"date":"2007-02-20T23:39:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T04:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/20\/step-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T21:39:06","slug":"step-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/20\/step-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed my 2007 writing resolutions again tonight and marked progress, particularly regarding the second item: pitch <em>The Last Track<\/em> to 40 agents. Without dropping exact numbers, and including the second round fired off today, hitting that number&#8211;if necessary&#8211;will not be a problem. At this point, it makes sense to allow time for replies, ease off the queries, and increase the writing output.<\/p>\n<p>Did some background work for the guerrilla marketing campaign, or item three. Since the plan involves a number of people besides myself, I&#8217;m in a holding pattern at the moment. Rest assured, the ball is rolling in a sound direction.<\/p>\n<p>No progress on the first item&#8211;entering 20 writing contests with cash prizes&#8211;other than identifying the contests. Of the four tasks, here I made the least strides. Initially I set the goal aside temporarily with the proviso of readying <em>The Confession<\/em> for entry in the First Chapters competition, but after a few more weeks into the project, I dropped that idea. In its present form <em>The Confession<\/em> is too personal for consumption; I may like the notion well enough, but the ideas are too raw, a steep percolation is necessary. Hopefully with some more effort it can be more accessible. And when I say accessible, I&#8217;m not talking about selling the piece, I mean being comfortable taking it out of a trunk and showing someone.<\/p>\n<p>While forsaking First Chapters, I am honoring step four: finish a draft of <em>The Confession<\/em> before tackling another large manuscript. While this course may suggest self-indulgence, I must finish anyway, because allowing the process to happen as it wants will lead me to another place. That point I take on faith. But there&#8217;s another reason to continue, even if the manuscript never sees print.<\/p>\n<p>I believe some stories need to be written, want for a writer to step through the associated emotions, feel them and capture their effects on a page, yet not share the actual product.<\/p>\n<p>Projects with such a charter&#8211;and I truly hope I have very few of these in me&#8211;are not made for a reader; they exist solely for the writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed my 2007 writing resolutions again tonight and marked progress, particularly regarding the second item: pitch The Last Track to 40 agents. Without dropping exact numbers, and including the second round fired off today, hitting that number&#8211;if necessary&#8211;will not be a problem. At this point, it makes sense to allow time for replies, ease off [&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-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","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=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}