Thursday marks the opening night of a student theatrical production. It’s amazing to me that a group of teenagers catapult from ground zero to a polished performance in two and half weeks. And that time frame includes building stages, sewing costumes, blocking and all rehearsals. Pretty incredible.<\/p>\n
I stayed late tonight for dinner–one benefit of a boarding school employment, free meals–and forgot about two important letters for my New Year’s writing resolutions sitting in my trunk. On the plus side, The Last Track<\/em> landed as planned so the professional proofreader may begin the tear down. Definitely looking forward to her feedback and the inevitable corrections. As much as I want this book out there, I still like tweaking fine details; I’m not sick of the work part yet.<\/p>\n The good news is that her efforts can move in parallel to the submission efforts. Whatever fixes necessary will be in place long before a full manuscript request comes in, and if they are not, I’ll just have to make them happen. In the meantime, the query process continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday marks the opening night of a student theatrical production. It’s amazing to me that a group of teenagers catapult from ground zero to a polished performance in two and half weeks. And that time frame includes building stages, sewing costumes, blocking and all rehearsals. Pretty incredible. I stayed late tonight for dinner–one benefit of […]<\/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-10815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815","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=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}